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Opioid settlement funds sustain drug-court and treatment positions; Marion Health adds walk-in psychiatric option
Summary
The county continues to use opioid-settlement funds to pay two drug-court–related positions, a treatment coordinator and a probation officer; Marion Health described a planned psychiatric walk-in clinic and other primary-care expansions.
Grant County officials updated the J-RAC on Sept. 2 about opioid-settlement spending and local behavioral-health capacity.
County members said two positions are currently supported by opioid-settlement dollars: one drug-court probation officer and one treatment coordinator whose role is to expedite placements into residential treatment, detox or sober-living services. The treatment coordinator, the board heard, can arrange treatment in as little as two hours in some cases, reducing jail…
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