SPOKANE, Wash. — Mayor Lisa Brown announced Tuesday a proposed investment of over half-a-million dollars in the city’s battle against the opioid crisis.
The proposal would allocate $730,000 in opioid settlement funds into various opioid treatment efforts across Spokane.
Mayor Brown’s announcement was made during Tuesday night’s Gabriel’s Challenge meeting, a community gathering named in honor of Gabriel Fensler, who died of an overdose one day after his 24th birthday. The meeting is one of several aimed at organizing a community response to Spokane’s opioid crisis…