34 organizations get $14M in grants from state opioid settlement money
Summary
The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission this week made grants to 34 organizations set to receive nearly $14 million.The commission was created by the General Assembly to distribute the states portion of the more than $842 million in settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors, half of which goes to the state and the other half goes to cities and counties. The commission is housed in the Kentucky Attorney Generals Office and is headed by Bryan Hubbard.Of the $13.9 million in this round of grant money, 21 of the awards were given for treatment and recovery, and 13 were given for prevention.Including the first round of state grants, the commission has awarded more than $32 million of the opioid settlement money to 59 groups.Kentucky Health News was told at the Sept. 22 meeting that there would be a delay in announcing the names of the recipients because the commission needed time to contact them.Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Gov. Andy Beshear, who preceded Cameron as attorney general, both take credit for the states share of the opioid settlement money.Cameron and Hubbard noted that $800 million in opioid settlements have come to Kentucky during his term. Hubbard said, "No other attorney general in our history has achieved such a momentous breakthrough in the fight against the opioid epidemic. "Beshear has pointed out that when he was attorney general, he sued "more opioid companies than any other attorney general in the country," and has also said that such lawsuits take many years to litigate, and that he filed the lawsuits Cameron has been settling.The commissions largest grants in the latest round were $1 million each to Voices of Hope-Lexington for treatment and recovery; to the Kentucky Health Department Association for prevention; and to the Northern Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy for prevention.Twenty other grants are for treatment and recovery:The 11 other new grants, for prevention, are:
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