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Most people understand that our country faces the crisis of opioids and death addiction. To fight this, you need proven solutions and resources. Still, a lot of money that should be spent in the fight against the crisis does not work on the idle in the accounts of government banks.
This is not taxpayers’ money; This is part of a legal settlement for which the companies that have been accused of Reckless encouragement of opioid crisis He agreed to pay to give some relief to those communities with devastated addiction. At the end of January, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family agreed to increase the amount they pay to $ 7.4 billion. But many countries and localities sit on millions that look unusual hesitates.
Each state has money to distribute. Since 2021, companies involved in the production and distribution of legal opioids, along with some pharmacies, have agreed to pay approximately $ 50 billion in total settlements.
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I was a governor for eight years in New Hampshire, and the smartest thing to fight this crisis was not to hesitate. We do not have all the answers regarding addiction, but we have progressed with the rest of the country.
Opioids remain a national crisis. File: Signs are shown in a tent during a health event, June 26, 2021, in Charleston, W.VA., Naloxone is a drug that cancels overdose effects by opioid by helping the person breathe again. (AP Photo/John Raby, file)
When I took my duty in 2017, we had The second highest mortality rate from the overdose of opioids in the country. From that time, our overdose mortality rate fell over 30%, while the national average continued to climb. We are now twenty seconds, and we have the lowest death rate from an overdose in Nova England. (Recently, for the first time after years, the death rate of the national opioida has begun to decline.)
When I took my duty, the pills of heroin and opioids were cheap; Those who tried to recover couldn’t get help. The waiting lists for treatment were more than six weeks long. I went the right to people on the front lines of the crisis to find answers. They knew that addicts could best be achieved immediately after an overdose. If it were not easy to be available, their patterns would only continue.
Two important changes helped us lower our footsteps. We have changed our approach to treatment starting since 2019 through what we call the door program. This new system design was founded on a critical thesis, the rural care approach was the biggest obstacle to functional addicts. Addiction rates were far greater in rural areas than anything seen in our small cities, but all resources and treatment programs were located in cities and beyond the reach of the average citizen.
With nine regional doors locations, help is always within an hour for everyone in the country. The program is funded primarily through the Grants of the Federal State Opioid Answers (SOR) and allowed us to expand the use of medicine, peer support and prevention technique.
In the first six months, more than 3,200 people have sought help by the door, and the monthly number of clients is still growing. By disstigmatizing addiction and simplifying the help of help seeking, the program helped reduce the number of overdose and death.
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Police officers and experts for treatment cannot be constantly everywhere, so we also invested 3 million dollars to put on a naloxon, What can reverse the effects of opioid in someone who overdose, almost everywhere we could. Early in my administration, we decided that if our streets were overwhelmed with deadly drugs like Fentanil, we had to overwhelm them with medicines to reversal opioids that save life.
We then changed our laws to ensure that all the first respondents, whether the fire or the police, could manage a life -saving order, without fear of unnecessary training or responsibility.
When I took my duty in 2017, we had the second highest opioid death rate in the country. From that time, our overdose mortality rate fell over 30%, while the national average continued to climb.
New Hampshire also became the first country to install Naloxboxes in public spaces, for the first answers, but also anyone who could overdose. Our good Samaritic laws also provided numerous cases in which the naloxone was governed by passers -by before the emergency rooms arrived and directly saved lives.
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Ken Trogdon, whose non -profit Harborpath cooperates with the states and organizations on the distribution of the Nalokson where it is most needed, emphasizes its importance. “As a nation, we have to get this medicine that saves life in the hand of everyone who can potentially need it. Unfortunately, that means that we basically need everywhere,” he says.
To date, the states have received approximately $ 6 billion of $ 50 billion, which are scheduled to receive from opioid settlements. However, reports suggest that even the third or even half of these funds remain unfair. That’s not good enough. I ask Governors and mayors across the country not to hesitate, think creatively and find solutions aimed at results similar to what we put here in New Hampshire to increase the approach of life to rescue life. The strategies we have implemented Rade and no one throughout America can afford this fight to be half -conscious.
