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Alexandria Reacts to Serious Opioid Crisis
Emily Bentley Selected as City’s Opioid Response Coordinator and Free Narcan is Available
From Del Ray to Old Town to the West End, the consequences of opioid misuse and addiction are being felt by people throughout our community. City staff are working together to respond locally to this crisis through the Opioid Work Group (OWG), and has recently selected Emily Bentley, LPC, as the Opioid Response Coordinator, a new position created by the Alexandria City Council to lead the City’s response to the local effects of the national opioid epidemic.
Bentley will provide strategic direction to the City’s multidimensional approach to the crisis, which focuses on five key areas: prevention and education, addiction treatment, overdose response and recovery, diversion into treatment, and supply reduction and law enforcement strategies.
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