BERLIN – Both Worcester and Wicomico counties are expected to benefit from state grants to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic in Maryland.
Last Thursday, Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC), in coordination with the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, announced nearly $10 million in grant funding to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic in fiscal year 2020.
“Our administration continues to be committed to using every resource possible to ensure our local jurisdictions have access to life-saving resources such as programs aimed towards prevention, treatment, and recovery,” Governor Larry Hogan said in a statement last week. “These grants are a powerful tool for our local communities in our fight against the opioid epidemic.”
The funding is part of a $50 million, five-year commitment from the administration announced in 2017.
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Now Salisbury can buy another Folly like the Fireboat!
ReplyDeleteHow about a Overdose rescue Bus, or a Overdose rescue Helicopter?
"Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties also received $532,000 in grant funding to support a regional substance-use, crisis-stabilization center."
ReplyDeleteWhere is this crisis-stabilization center?
Or more Wicomico Goes Purple signs.
ReplyDeleteNone of that money will make a difference. It will be spent on futile things just to make a showing. Until the addicts decide to stop it won't make a difference. But hey, there's alot of money to be made off rehabs and programs to so called battle this. This is why health care is so expensive for people who are really sick from bullshit like this in the system.
ReplyDelete"Crisis Stabilization" would be banning Narcan. Problem will be fixed within a few years. No one that will be missed.
ReplyDeleteYou said it. Take away their parachute of social services, and all the perks. Let the chips fall where they may. It would be cheaper to cover their funeral expenses one time, than keep throwing good money at their bullshit attempt to get clean.
DeleteThere has to be oversight to follow the money because guaranteed that money won’t go where it’s supposed to.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is Wicomico Goes Purple and why should we spend money to be aware of it? How is a first responders appreciation dinner going to help solve anything?
ReplyDeleteApted phrasing of headline.
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