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Assembly to Consider $2.4M Opioid Settlement Appropriation for Narcan, recovery residences and micro‑units
Summary
R2025-189 would appropriate $2,400,000 in opioid settlement proceeds for a community health worker, naloxone distribution (vending machines), startup funding for a treatment operator and capital for at least 24 micro units via the Anchorage Community Development Authority; funds must align with the national settlement's allowable uses.
The administration will ask the Assembly to approve R2025-189 to appropriate $2,400,000 in opioid settlement proceeds for programs to address opioid misuse, Anchorage Health Department staff said at the June 6 work session.
Staff described the municipality’s share of the national opioid settlement and its allowable uses. The Municipality of Anchorage is slated to receive $4,186,000 over 18 years under the settlement, health staff said, and the state’s advisory council projected roughly $58,000,000 statewide over the same period. The municipality’s funds must be spent in accord with the settlement’s Exhibit E, which lists approved, evidence‑based remediation strategies…
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