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Thurston County Board of Health adopts 2025 opioid response plan
Summary
The Board approved a revised opioid response plan that keeps most strategies from 2024, adds older adults as a priority group and documents expanded naloxone distribution and community outreach.
Thurston County Board of Health on Jan. 14 approved the county'9s 2025 Opioid Response Plan, endorsing a set of 29 strategies aimed at prevention, treatment, overdose response and support for pregnant and parenting people.
The Board adopted the plan after a staff presentation that summarized a year-long community feedback process and highlighted expanded naloxone distribution, syringe-services outcomes and a new emphasis on older adults as a priority population.
Katie Serzic, Thurston County opioid and overdose response program manager, told the Board the plan reflects community input and ongoing work: "It's impacting folks here in Thurston County that is also saving lives on a daily basis." Serzic said the plan retains most…
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