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Hopkinsville providers and residents urge council to form opioid advisory committee as $749,000 awaits distribution
Summary
Multiple treatment providers, social workers and program graduates urged the Hopkinsville City Council to create an opioid-settlement advisory committee to allocate roughly $749,000 the city is holding, citing rising overdoses and gaps in outpatient services.
More than a dozen Hopkinsville residents, treatment providers and program graduates used the council’s public-comment period on March 17 to urge the city to form an advisory committee to distribute opioid-settlement funds and expand treatment and recovery supports.
Christina Seekers, an alternative-sentencing social worker with the public defender’s office, told the council: "What I'm asking the city council to do is to set a opioid advisory committee for the funds that's been sent to the city of Hopkinsville." She cited public records she said show a payment of about $231,000 in December 2022 and that "as of the year 2024, that was over 475,000," and argued the money…
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