HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Heath Department will receive funding to help support prevention and surveillance to help combat opioid and drug overdose.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s (KDHE) Bureau of Health Promotion was awarded $3.1 million as part of its second year of the Overdose Data to Action Cooperative Agreement through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Health Department will receive some of the funding to implement overdose prevention initiatives. No dollar amount was provided in a release from the KDHE.
This award will support prevention and surveillance efforts surrounding the opioid and drug use, misuse and overdose crisis in Kansas. The award will bring in $3.1 million per year through 2022.
In 2019, there were more than 393 drug-poisoning deaths in Kansas, and approximately 177 of those involved a prescription or an illicit opioid, and 153 involved psychostimulants, such as methamphetamine.