Mashpee Plans Drug Prevention Fund with Opioid Settlement Money

MASHPEE – More local towns are finalizing how they will spend their share of the opioid settlement money from two national settlements, including Mashpee. The town has received about $153,000, which Human Services Director Gail Wilson said will go towards an annual funding program open to nonprofits specializing in drug use prevention. “We hope to get this application to the public later this month. We have a three member panel that will be reviewing the applications as they come in, with later approval by the human services committee,” said Wilson. The town will receive a total of $727,000 over a…