BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A $1 million opioid settlement reimbursement approved by the Metro Council in August has yet to reach the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s office, leaving nonprofit partners dipping into their own pockets for addiction prevention programs.

The delay affects programs designed to help prevent addiction in communities using money from multi-billion-dollar settlements with pharmaceutical companies like Johnson & Johnson in 2021.

“It’s an opportunity to build back lives and build better lives, rather than better cases, so we try to do that as much as possible,” said Jon Daily with the DA’s office. “On the other side of that -- the supply side, we prosecute the people who need to be prosecuted and in order to do that we maximize the limited resources we have, and

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