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Peer recovery, quick-response teams and naloxone distribution emphasized as core uses for settlement funds
Summary
Multiple presenters told the House subcommittee that hospital-based peer recovery, quick response teams and statewide naloxone distribution networks are essential components of the state’s response and asked legislators to fund and expand these services with settlement dollars.
Speakers at the House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing urged lawmakers to fund peer recovery coaching, quick-response teams (QRTs), centralized referral lines and widespread naloxone distribution as proven, immediate interventions.
Dunia Colano, director of operations at Face Addiction Now (FAN), described FAN’s Hope Not Handcuffs program and a statewide Hope Line launched in 2023 that connects people to recovery services. “We have over 180 police…
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