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Vermont health officials urge focusing opioid settlement funds on long‑term recovery housing and operations
Summary
The Vermont Department of Health told the House Human Services committee it recommends concentrating opioid settlement dollars on long‑term recovery housing and ongoing operations, not short‑term projects; officials also proposed technical reversions and a statutory correction for a medication dosing unit in Chittenden County.
Veil Livingston, an advisor in the commissioner’s office at the Vermont Department of Health, told the House Human Services committee the department’s report (sent Jan. 15) recommends prioritizing long‑term projects funded from the opioid special fund, with a particular emphasis on recovery housing and ongoing operational support.
Livingston said the department is asking for a few technical corrections to H.660: two reversions (money to return to the OSAC fund), a $444,000 reversion from a medication‑dosing unit no longer required by corrections, and a change to statute removing the explicit naming of the Howard Center so funds for a dosing unit in Chittenden County can be assigned to an available provider in the county. “Howard Center is not interested in providing…
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