Los Angeles County will get the most in Southern California, but others will receive significant amounts.
“It took away the pain — all the pain,” said a doctor who fell victim to the charms of Oxycontin. “In the brain, in the heart, in the body. That’s what we’re up against.”
To date, California’s state and local governments are owed $425 million from various opioid settlement funds, with $59.5 million for Los Angeles County and its cities, $22.7 million for Orange County and its cities, $17.7 million for Riverside County and its cities, and $12.7 million for San Bernardino County and its cities,court-appointed funds administrator, and published by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
a blueprint for wise settlement spending compiled by experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Stanford, RAND Corporation and others. “It matters how this money is earmarked for use,” they wrote. “Settlement money should be spent in three areas that research shows will substantially reduce deaths and improve lives: preventing overdoses and other harms to those using opioids, providing evidence-based addiction treatment, and offering services for mothers and children affected by the crisis.”
San Bernardino County is working on a plan. So is Riverside County, focusing on training, enhancing data collection, prevention, treatment, recovery efforts and a public education campaign. It’s expected to go to the Board of Supervisors this summer.Annastasia Rose Beal of Harm Reduction Circle hands out Narcan and supplies in Santa Ana in April.
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