{"id":19738,"date":"2023-09-11T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:21:17","slug":"santa-clara-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/santa-clara-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County considers how to spend nearly $50K of opioid settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Katy St. Clair. Bay City News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Santa Clara County supervisors on Tuesday will discuss how to spend the nearly $50 million in opioid settlement cash the county will receive to combat the fentanyl and opioid crisis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Leading the charge is Supervisor Cindy Chavez, who said she established the county\u2019s first fentanyl task force two years ago after a 12-year-old boy died from fentanyl poisoning. Chavez said so far the county has $48 million to spend on the problem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Santa Clara County will receive a portion of a multimillion-dollar national opioid settlement against drug manufacturers, distributors and retailers for their role in creating a state and national crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the county, it expects to receive money from seven deals, though only two have been finalized: one with opioid maker Janssen and one with distributors Cardinal, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen. Deals are pending with Allergan Finance, CVS, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Walgreens Co. and Walmart, and the county estimates they will be finalized \u201cin the coming months.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBased on information currently available, it is estimated that the county could receive up to $45 million from the Janssen and distributor settlements over 18 years,\u201d the county said in a report to the Board of Supervisors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, San Francisco announced a $267 million deal with Allergan, Teva and Walgreens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Santa Clara County is looking at four \u201careas\u201d in which to spend the money: prevention, harm reduction, treatment services and recovery. This would include developing a \u201cmore robust\u201d public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioids like fentanyl, especially targeting youth and other vulnerable populations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The county also wants to increase access to naloxone, which reverses overdoses, and fentanyl strips, which detect the drug so users know what they are ingesting. The county also wants to increase services for youth and young adults.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chavez said San Jose has been designated a \u201cfentanyl hub\u201d by authorities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at the County Government Center, 70 West Hedding St., San Jose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You may be interested in:<\/strong> Parts of Santa Clara County under quarantine for oriental fly invasion<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por Katy St. Clair. Bay City News. Los supervisores del condado de Santa Clara discutir\u00e1n el martes c\u00f3mo gastar los casi 50 millones de d\u00f3lares en efectivo del acuerdo de opioides que el condado recibir\u00e1 para combatir la crisis del fentanilo y los opioides.\u00a0 A la cabeza del tema est\u00e1 la supervisora \u200b\u200bCindy Ch\u00e1vez, quien […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,306],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-santa-clara"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19741,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions\/19741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}