By then, county officials were seeing the area’s fatal opioid overdose toll tick up.
“We were grossly underprepared, like I think many places across the country were, for the opioid epidemic,” Stuby said.
Like hundreds of U.S. communities, it's launched a drug court where people can avoid jail if they work on recovery.
They can lead to an entry-level certificate for work in the field — a partial answer to a recovery workforce crunch.
His research has shown that recovery support services — such as housing, community centers and peer coaching — can help.
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