HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) - The City of Holyoke hosted a forum to discuss how to use money from an opioid settlement.

This was the second forum of the day and was an opportunity for residents to have a say in how these funds are used to address the ongoing opioid crisis in the community.

The family that owns Purdue Pharma agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to towns and cities across the US in January over their role in the opioid crisis. When Governor Healey served as the attorney general for Massachusetts in 2021, she was among the first to sue the family for enabling the overdose epidemic.

"If one individual passes away from an overdose, that means a family is ravaged, in a community is ravaged. We didn't just lose somebody suffering from a disease of addiction. We lost a son, a father, a f

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