Dane County will receive an $80,000 grant from the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance to help manage opiate abuse, according to a Dane County press release.
The grant aims at reducing criminal use of opiates in Dane County, according to the release.
The money will fund a counselor committed to working with offenders addicted to opiates such as heroin, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in the release.
“If we can help address this powerful addiction and give people a meaningful opportunity to change their life we can make our community a safer place for us all,” Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said in the release.
The release said the county will use this grant to further its ongoing effort to reduce drug abuse.
Last year, Dane County created the Opiates Task Force and added six treatment slots to the county’s Drug Court Treatment Program, the press release said.
