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Black Hawk County public health outlines priorities for opioid settlement spending; subcommittee to refine funding plan
Summary
Public health and community partners presented data and a prioritized list of strategies for opioid settlement funds. The board asked for an updated gap analysis tied to pending state-level changes and signaled interest in continuing a subcommittee to refine funding and evaluation plans.
Black Hawk County Public Health presented an update March 25 on how the county might use opioid settlement funds, including data on prescribing, treatment demand and recommended priority strategies drawn from a community subcommittee.
Russ (county public health) and representatives from Pathways Behavioral Services summarized available local data showing Black Hawk County’s opioid-prescribing rate is slightly higher than the state average and that fentanyl and opioids figure prominently in recent overdose deaths. They also noted data limitations and urged caution interpreting small-cell counts.
The county’s settlement-subcommittee — convened through the Cedar Valley Substance Abuse and Overdose Prevention Coalition and involving roughly 20 stakeholders — narrowed 26 eligible “core strategies” from the settlement exhibit to 11 and then to five priorities for a…
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