KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo County will have almost a million dollars a year to spend to save the lives of substance abusers, thanks to the national opioid settlement at $947,800 per year.
Deputy Administrator Lyndi Smith says they expect to eventually get $14.6 million from drug makers and distributors who have admitted their culpability in an outbreak in fatal addictions due to pain killers. Fentanyl has made a bad situation worse.
Smith says they plan a four-pronged effort to enhance not just opioid but all substance abuse programs…