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Lehigh County DA details using opioid settlement and forfeiture funds to back treatment and prevention programs
Summary
At an Emmaus event, DA Gavin Holly said opioid litigation settlement funds and drug asset forfeiture proceeds are being directed to treatment centers, sober-living programs and prevention projects, citing a $1,000,000 opioid-funded intervention and a $135,000 grant to Bloom for Women.
Gavin Holly, Lehigh County district attorney, described to Emmaus residents how the DA's office is using non-taxpayer funds from an opioid litigation settlement and drug asset forfeiture to finance treatment, recovery and prevention efforts.
"We were given $1,000,000 dollars to spend when Jim Martin was still a district attorney," Holly said, describing the settlement as an 18-year arrangement. He said the office spent that initial payment to support the intake and inpatient operations at Treatment Trends, an Allentown…
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