How to spend opioid settlement money? Pasco mulls treatment options
The county will divvy up $8 million in the coming months.
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The county will divvy up $8 million in the coming months.
Jefferson County is the fourth highest county in Missouri for overdose mortalities from 2017 to 2021 and is sixth highest for inpatient (nonfatal) overdoses from 2017 to 2020.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham alleged Wednesday that opioids expert Joy Alonzo told students in a guest lecture that “Your Lt. Governor says those kids deserve to die.” Alonzo denied the claims.
Joy Alonzo denied Wednesday that she accused Patrick of saying kids who died from opioid overdoses “deserve to die.”
Joy Alonzo, a suspended Texas A&M professor, denies saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick believes kids who die of overdoses "deserve" the outcome.