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Residents and recovery providers urge Bay County to speed opioid-settlement funding, request multi-year RFPs
Summary
Residents, recovery providers and some commissioners urged Bay County to accelerate distribution of opioid-settlement dollars, pushed for multi-year request-for-proposal periods and offered Narcan training and distribution for county facilities.
At the June 17 meeting of the Bay County Board of Commissioners, residents and recovery-service providers urged county leaders to accelerate disbursement of opioid-settlement funds and to widen the length and stability of grant awards.
The appeals came during the meeting’s public comment period from Laurie Ziolkowski of Face Addiction Now and from Ricardo Bottom, director of 50/60 Recovery Alliance. “The house is on fire. We are still in an epidemic,” Ziolkowski said, urging the board to use “the full resources” of settlement funds and to issue longer-term funding opportunities. She said Bay County ranked highest in overdose deaths per capita among the 20 counties covered by the region’s Medicaid-managed PIHP, Mid State Health Network (statement attributed to…
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