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Local leaders warn House cuts to overdose and naloxone funding would reverse progress on overdose deaths
Summary
County leaders, public-safety officials and addiction-response coalition representatives told the Senate Health Committee that proposed House cuts to overdose-prevention funding, including naloxone distribution, could reverse progress in reducing overdose deaths.
Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus and other local officials told the Senate Health Committee that cuts in the House-passed budget to overdose-prevention funding would threaten years of progress reducing overdose deaths.
"We strongly support the governor's version of the budget related to funding for strategies to reduce overdose deaths, including funding for naloxone," Driehaus said.…
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