Where to begin? Organizations, advocates weigh how to spend opioid settlement money

DELPHOS — Diane Urban remembers the day her sons finally asked for help: how difficult it was to find a doctor who could prescribe suboxone, let alone a long-term treatment center that was accepting new patients for substance-use disorder.

“They would keep you (for 15 to 30 days) and then you’re just cut loose and on your own,” said Urban, who founded the nonprofit Association of People Against Lethal Drugs after her son, Jordan Garmatter, died from fentanyl poisoning in 2019. He was 24.