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City's opioid-abatement office outlines grant program, reporting rules and recent spending
Summary
The Jacksonville Office of Opioid Abatement briefed the DOGE special committee on the opioid settlement grants program (OSPG), reporting about $8 million expended in roughly 18 months, timelier overdose-response data from JFRD, and compliance requirements tied to settlement "schedules A and B."
The Jacksonville Office of Opioid Abatement presented an overview of the opioid settlement proceeds grants (OSPG) program to the City Council's DOGE special committee on Oct. 21, describing how programs are selected, funded and monitored and stressing the requirement that all city spending of settlement dollars be “schedules A and B compliant.”
Madeline Zarew, manager of opioid abatement at Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department (JFRD), said the city began receiving settlement funds in late 2022 and established the Office of Opioid Abatement by ordinance in 2023. She told the committee the office oversees the OSPG program, a CORE (Coordinated Opioid Recovery) program that embeds care coordinators and peer navigators in emergency departments, interlocal disbursements to nearby municipalities and data and reporting.
Laura Villafora Rey, program coordinator, gave national, state and local context for the crisis, describing the three waves of opioid overdose deaths and the rise of synthetic opioids…
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