Palm Beach County is considering how to spend $122 million from national opioid lawsuits and looks as though it will spend most on stable housing and other life saving measures for those in recovery. Science-averse leadership in Tallahassee should recognize local government knows best how to help its people.
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"We’re flooding Palm Beach County with life-saving medication so that we have a reduction in overdose deaths," Dr. Courtney Phillips, the vice president of behavioral health at the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, told WPBF 25 News.
Since July 2022, over 10,000 packages of Narcan nasal spray, used to reverse overdoses, have been distributed by the Health Care District of Palm Beach County.