Partners On Board to Stop the Drug Overdose Epidemic
October 28, 2011
Safe Communities is honored that Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Madison Mayor Paul Soglin have included funds in their 2012 executive budgets for Safe Communities to coordinate an initiative to stop heroin and prescription drug overdoses.
Soglin and Parisi announced the effort at a news conference attended by over 40 partners representing law enforcement, drug treatment and health care providers, judges and attorneys, emergency responders, public health leaders and policymakers.
> download Dane County fact sheet on the scope of the problem
> download strategy map outlining our approach
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