Kensington Voice

State lawmakers tour Kensington ahead of city's opioid settlement appeal: “I just didn’t know”

State officials talking to a resident of Kensington on a sidewalk

State Sen. Christine Tartaglione and Sen. Greg Rothman toured Kensington Avenue with a group of local stakeholders including a venture capitalist, two police supervisors, two mayoral advisors, a nonprofit director, an addiction outreach worker, and a handful of people from the city’s Police-Assisted Diversion program. 

The state senators sit on the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust, which monitors how local jurisdictions spend federal opioid settlement funding from lawsuits against drug manufacturers and distributors. The dollars are distributed to Pennsylvania and then to local jurisdictions. Philadelphia received about $20 million in 2023 and is expected to receive a total of $200 million over the next 18 years. Read more. 

Photo by Sammy Caiola