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Dallas County’s oversight committee recommends $58,116 opioid-abatement grant to WesleyLife
Summary
The county’s Opioid Settlement Oversight Committee recommended $58,116.43 to WesleyLife for a home- and community-based opioid abatement initiative — including lockboxes, drug-neutralizing kits and non-opioid therapies — and will require quarterly reporting to the board.
The Dallas County Opioid Settlement Oversight Committee recommended that the Board of Supervisors fund WesleyLife’s Home and Community Based Services initiative with $58,116.43 from the county’s opioid settlement allocation, according to a resolution presented Tuesday.
The funding request, which the committee reviewed for eligible abatement, targets three priorities: securing controlled medications in private homes (lockboxes and Drug Buster disposal kits), expanding clinician access to non-opioid pain-management tools (loaner TENS units, topical analgesics and…
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