#Hawaii County fentanyl task force

Hawai‘i County plans to use opioid settlement funds for detox center in Hilo

As part of a nationwide opioid settlement with pharmaceutical companies, the State of Hawaiʻi will receive $81.4 million over the next 18 years, with $489,000 allotted to the Big Island this year, and $110,000 in each of the subsequent years.

‘Breakthrough intervention’ to be announced in fight against fentanyl on the Big Island

The Hawai‘i County Fentanyl Task Force meeting will take place on Friday at the Hawai‘i Island Community Health Center in Hilo.

Young lives on the Big Island are being lost to drug overdoses and deadly fentanyl

In the past two months, a teenager has died from a drug overdose and a teenager and a young adult have died of suspected drug overdoses, police said.