ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted Wednesday morning to allocate the money provided to the county from the 2022 opioid settlement for the future Belmont County Health Department.

A 2022 federal lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies was filed, with money from the settlement required to be divided between local governments within the state of Ohio.

“As many people know, there were a number of settlements in terms of opioid lawsuits across the country within the last several years, and some of those settlements resulted in funding directly to local governments and counties,” commissioner J.P. Dutton said. “Other funds go through a process in the state of Ohio with an organization called One Ohio, which is also sort of a clearinghouse for a portion o

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