DuPage County awards $125,000 in grants to help fight opioid epidemic DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin, left, speaks Friday at a news conference about this year s county grants to agencies and programs addressing the opioid crisis. At right is DuPage Health Department Executive Director Karen Ayala. Susan Sarkauskas | Staff Photographer
Updated 7/23/2021 3:51 PM
DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen had grim, but not surprising, news to share on Friday: Drug overdose deaths so far this year are on par to match those in 2020, which was a record year.
So for the fourth year in a row, the Heroin/Opioid Prevention and Education Taskforce has given money to agencies and programs that help addicts.