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MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday approved spending $36 million in opioid settlement funds.
Committee co-chair Senator Howard Marklein says that will include money for education and prevention.
“Many of us can remember the public service campaigns like just say no. This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs, any questions? And the anti-smoking commercials with images of lung cancer,” said Marklein. “So we need to address opioids in the same way.”
The committee’s Republican majority modified the plan submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on how to spend the settlement money.
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