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Advisory committee debates including harm-reduction strategies; syringe services funding flagged by commissioners
Summary
Committee members debated whether to include harm-reduction and syringe-services programming among eligible strategies for opioid-settlement grants after members reported commissioners or beneficiaries raised objections; the committee agreed to educate commissioners and seek further discussion before removing the strategy.
Committee members spent a substantial portion of the meeting debating whether harm-reduction strategies — including syringe-services programs (SSPs) — should be listed as a core strategy in the county’s opioid-settlement application. One committee member reported that some commissioners and funding beneficiaries had asked to remove syringe-services language from the application.
Members pushing to retain harm reduction said that evidence-based approaches,…
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