Oregon board rejects… request to direct all opioid settlement funds to harm reduction
That means Save Lives Oregon, a state-funded program that provides harm reduction resources, training and items such as clean syringes, Narcan and fentanyl test strips to local organizations, will get $5.1 million instead of $21.6 million in opioid settlement funding through 2027.
Several members of the 18-person Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board… stressed that while they support harm reduction programs, they didn’t want to divert all of the state’s funding from other vital programs such as drug treatment and addiction prevention. Since the inception of Save Lives Oregon in 2020, the program has distributed more than 675,000 naloxone doses across the state and hundreds of harm reduction kits to schools and community agencies, according to its website. The program has received more than 19,000 reports of drug overdose reversals in that time, which is almost certainly an undercount, staff say.
Original Article (Denver Post):
Oregon board rejects Gov. Tina Kotek’s request to direct all opioid settlement funds to harm reduction
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