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County leaders and first responders tell Senate cuts to overdose strategy funding would endanger lives
Summary
Hamilton and Clermont county officials, county addiction coalitions and law-enforcement leaders urged the Senate to restore House cuts to overdose-prevention funding in HB 96, saying naloxone distribution and related programs reduced overdose deaths and that cuts would reverse recent declines.
Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus and Clermont County Commissioner David Painter told the Senate Health Committee that reductions in overdose-prevention funding proposed by the House risked reversing substantial local progress. Driehaus said Hamilton County has distributed “well over 30,000 doses of naloxone” through public health, EMS, fire departments and community partners and credited the effort with a 51 percent…
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