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Committee debates allocation of opioid settlement funds; public health, sheriff and behavioral-health proposals advanced
Summary
The PECS committee reviewed proposals to spend opioid settlement funds on medication-assisted treatment, jail-based induction and an expanded naloxone distribution program, and directed staff to return with a substitute allocation that may include fire-rescue needs and geographic targeting.
The PECS committee reviewed proposals to deploy opioid settlement funds to local partners and debated whether allocations should shift to agencies serving high-overdose neighborhoods.
DeKalb Public Health presented data showing 371 opioid-related deaths from 2021–2023, an age-adjusted opioid mortality rate for DeKalb near the Georgia rate, and localized overdose hot spots in southern and southeastern DeKalb. The department reported it currently funds one full-time staffer for opioid work (about $106,892 in department funding) and proposed adding one full-time position plus three hourly community-health workers, distributing up to 3,000 naloxone kits and piloting a naloxone vending machine (Grady and national examples cited). The department requested $434,354 to…
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