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Graham County accepts state opioid grant; board tables proposal to subcontract overdose fatality review
Summary
The board approved a $25,000-per-year State Opioid Response scope of work agreement with the Arizona Department of Health Services to establish a local drug overdose fatality review team, then tabled a separate request to subcontract that work to the Greenlee-Graham substance abuse coalition for further briefing.
The Graham County Board of Supervisors on April 21 approved a State Opioid Response (SOR) scope-of-work agreement with the Arizona Department of Health Services to establish a local drug overdose fatality review team and accept $25,000 per year to support the work.
Emily Bridal, of the Graham County Health Department, told the board the review team would request medical records and other documentation for each death caused by a drug overdose to determine whether prior health-care contacts or other interventions might have prevented the death. "It is more of a prevention looking into the past historically and to seeing is there anything that we…
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