Howard County Executive Calvin Ball has signed an Executive Order creating an Opioid Collaborative Community Council. The Community Council will assist in determining priorities for how Howard County should use…
On March 1, 2022, Associate Policy Director Brianna January testified before the House Appropriations and Health and Government Operations Committees in support of HB 794 - Public Health – Opioid Restitution…
According to Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, the Sackler family will pay Maryland at least $39.6 million as a part of a $6 billion multi-state settlement agreement for its…
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, has unveiled a novel approach to neighborhood-level harm reduction: vending machined stocked with the anti-opioid medication Naloxone (or Narcan). As State and local governments continue to grapple…
Using funds from the Volkswagen Mitigation Settlement, MDE will accept applications for proposals on charging infrastructure until April 15, 2022. The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), in coordination with…
County officials piece together 5 different funding sources to transform an existing county-owned building into a new behavioral health facility focusing on crisis stabilization in Frederick County. According to a…
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, Federal Judge Robert Drain approved a settlement agreement granting "sweeping immunity [to the Sackler family] from opioid lawsuits linked to their privately owned company Purdue…
The Opioid Restitution Fund (ORF) Advisory Council will provide recommendations for the usage of opioid legal settlement funds that, to date, total almost $400M and counting. In a press release,…
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