Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee Regular Meeting

This month’s Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee Meeting focused on Medication Assisted Treatment, or MAT. 

Part of developing specialized services for those with substance use disorder and mental health issues is knowing which types of communities are the hardest to reach with help.

Measure 110 continues to be a big topic of conversation at the Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee meetings because it makes significant changes in the law about how drug-related offenses are handled.

Over the last few years, fentanyl overdoses and deaths have been on the rise in the United States, and it's a problem that committees like the LADPC have been scrambling to address.

Updates about the progress of multiple efforts to assess and provide resources for people in our community with behavioral health diagnoses and substance use disorder.

This month’s Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee Meeting focused on two major topics that will soon have significant impacts on the health of our community.