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Lawrence County approves $30,000 opioid-settlement grant for local prevention and outreach program
Summary
The county commissioners voted to allocate $30,000 from opioid settlement funds to Action for the Betterment of our Community to expand school-based opioid education, host town halls and buy overdose-response kits.
Lawrence County commissioners approved a $30,000 grant from the county's opioid settlement funds to Action for the Betterment of our Community (ABC) to expand opioid-prevention education and community outreach.
The ABC proposal, presented by Executive Director Kara Graven, requests the funds to expand a health-and-opioid-prevention curriculum in middle schools, host Dead On Arrival (DOA) town halls, and install public overdose-response lockboxes stocked with naloxone (Narcan).
Graven told commissioners that the program would extend existing school work into a more targeted opioid curriculum and build local capacity for prevention and emergency response.…
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