Over the past two years, the state’s Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust has allocated $70.3 million.

They say there are 1,217 people in Georgia in urgent need of the Medicaid-funded waivers that help pay for care at home and in communities. 

These units are part of the state’s solution to address a backlog of people in custody of the court.

Every school in the state and most government buildings will have naloxone readily available in compliance with recent legislation.

Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is proposing restructuring the waiting list for a state-run Medicaid program that provides waivers to people with disabilities.

Since the late 1980s, Georgia has led the way in training professional peer counselors with substance misuse and mental health challenges to help others in similar situations.