A portion of monies generated through a Kentucky attorney general settlement with Purdue Pharma continues to be distributed to recovery and treatment centers. Tuesday’s announcement concerns a Prestonsburg facility.
The A-G’s office reports close to a million dollars will be coming to ‘Hope in the Mountains’, which provides both short and long term substance abuse treatment for women. The agency began offering services in 2008. Director Renee McCoy says it will help provide stable funding for services. “It would bridge the gap and help us to serve other indigent women, that would help pay for treatment,” said McCoy.
McCoy says some services had to be curtailed because of funding constraints. That included parenting classes and drug screening for participants. She says there’s never been a consistent funding stream for long term treatment. “This is where the women actually go out into the community and they get jobs and they’re still secure in the environment and they still get counseling, they still get all the services as if they were in intensive treatment.”
Hope in the Mountains is one of 15 recovery and drug treatment centers benefitting from the money set out in this year’s state budget. ?
