Directing drug addiction dollars in Austin and Travis County
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, which has worked closely with Travis County on its opioid crisis response, signed on last month to a Travis County has received $1.4 million and Austin has received $1.5 million this summer from the settlement. The city has thus far only allocated $75,000 of its share, from, and that covers the cost of 800 overdose response kits, each including two doses of Narcan, to be distributed to community-based organizations. EMS will provide additional kits to businesses that have had more than one overdose on-site within the past year.
Commissioners also put up to $575,000 toward reimbursing previous opioid-related expenses – something THRA and the road map have discouraged – but committed the same amount of the county's own money to additional services. Another $41,000 from the settlement will be moved to the county's allocated reserves to support any future settlement fund requirements.
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