Bexar County Commissioners approved a policy that will guide how the county spends over $14 million it received from a statewide opioid settlement.
Brittany Khan is preparing to start a new life after spending the last few months at the Casa Mia recovery home.
Casa Mia is in this older building with the capacity of 20 women, but a portion of Bexar County’s funds from its opioid settlement will go toward aDr. Andrea Guerrero-Guajardo, with the Bexar County Preventative Health Department, helped create the policy that will determine how the rest of the county’s settlement money will be spent.
“The best way to treat addiction is not to create someone with an addiction in the first place,” Guerrero-Guajardo said.
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