In 2022, Edmonds City Council authorized the Mayor to sign an MOU to join the One Washington Opioid Settlement, split between Washington state, counties and cities. As a term of the settlement distribution, participating parties must allocate funds towards addressing the opioid crisis and its symptoms in their communities.
The One Washington Opioid Overdose Settlement Fund provides a resource to help address the growing need for opioid recovery and prevention services in our region. Allowable uses for these funds include:
- Treating opioid use disorder
- Supporting people in treatment and recovery
- Connecting people who need help to the help they need (connections to care)
- Addressing the needs of criminal-justice involved persons
- Addressing the needs of pregnant or parenting women and their families, including babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Preventing over-prescribing and ensure appropriate prescribing and dispensing of opioids
- Preventing misuse of opioids
- Preventing overdose deaths and other harms
- First responders and outreach
- Leadership, planning and coordination
- Training
- Research