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County health staff report rabies case, recovery events and plans to use opioid settlement funds for clinics and school programs
Summary
Public health and community-services staff briefed the Health and Human Services Committee on a rabid fox exposure, outreach plans including a recovery celebration and health fest, and proposed uses for opioid settlement money including clinic access and a teen substance-use counseling program at BOCES.
Commissioner John and public-health and community-services staff told the Sullivan County Health and Human Services Committee about public-health activity this summer, planned community events and possible uses of opioid settlement funds.
John said overdose and substance-use work continues to be a county priority: “The number for July is 19,” he said, referring to July overdose incidents. John said some overdoses involved alcohol and that the county is pursuing collaborations with treatment providers.
John briefed the committee on potential uses of opioid settlement funds, saying the drug task-force leads will next meet to consider options including supporting primary-care clinic access and supplementing the county’s Restart program, which provides school-based substance-use counseling…
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