The city’s Department of Public Health and Environment released a list of 58 possible uses Thursday,
“We tried to, by design, to list as many of those categories where we were going to be working because it is going to take a multi-pronged approach,” McDonald said. “The nice thing about the way this is set up is that we don’t have to have all of the answers right now.” The settlement money is, in some ways, a reminder of how far the overdose crisis has shifted in a decade: The lawsuits to secure the money were filed against opioid manufacturers and distributors as prescription drug abuse fueled overdose deaths. But in the years since those lawsuits were filed and initially settled, fentanyl has become a dominant player in the illicit drug scene.
The city’s list of possible uses for the money is “wildly comprehensive,” said Terri Hurst, a policy coordinator with the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. Taken together, it represents “what the ideal system would look like.” But $4.7 million doesn’t go very far, she continued, and the city will have to find a way to prioritize and ensure it’s using its funding as efficiently as possible .
All is going into the pockets of democrats!
Is it only Denver or the whole state? I'm not giving a dime to this paper until they fire Kiszla