Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a three-part series exploring the status of the opioid crisis in northwest Wisconsin, how local governments are spending their settlement money and how well their efforts to abate opioid addiction are working. This week’s report details where experts say settlement dollars would be most effective and the extent to which municipalities in northwest Wisconsin are following best practices.
Even after more than four years’ sobriety, Amanda Twitchell remembers what it was like being in a treatment program and not feeling heard.
“It’s super frustrating being in a program where everybody’s telling you what to do and you’re a grown adult,” she said. “Nobody likes that.”…