Luzerne County Council is set to vote Monday on three proposed opioid settlement fund earmarks totaling $700,760.

The requests were advanced to council by the county’s Commission on Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement, which was created to make recommendations on how to spend funds received from the state’s settlement against opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors.

Council has earmarked approximately $5.5 million in opioid settlement funds since 2023 for a range of eligible internal and outside projects, including programs that provide medication-assisted treatment at the prison, warm hand-off and recovery specialist services, recovery housing, and treatment and prevention education.

Psychiatric hospital

The largest proposed allocation on Monday’s agenda is $500,000 for Wyom

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