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Charlottesville details opioid-abatement funds, naloxone distribution and treatment pilots
Summary
Deputy City Manager Ashley Reynolds Marshall told council members that the city will receive opioid settlement funds over time and has already spent $45,073 on naloxone vending machines; the city and regional partners have approved or applied for several treatment, crisis center and distribution projects.
Ashley Reynolds Marshall, deputy city manager for the city of Charlottesville, briefed the Charlottesville City Council at a work session on the city’s opioid abatement funding streams, recent expenditures and proposed pilot programs.
Marshall said the opioid settlements and related state authority produce three primary funding streams for the city: direct distributions from distributors, an individual (noncompetitive) distribution for cities/counties that requires annual application, and a “gold standard” pool that requires a pledge to use funds on evidence-based opioid remediation and treatment. She summarized allowable uses: “You can spend money to treat opioid use disorder, which you also will see in documents as just OUD. You can spend money to prevent opioid use disorder, and you can spend money to abate or remediate opioid use disorder.”
The nut graf: city officials heard that the city already approved one expenditure — a $45,073 distribution to the Charlottesville Fire Department for naloxone vending machines — and that multiple cooperative grants and pilot programs are either…
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