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February 14, 2023

Cherokee Nation to build $18M treatment center

  • The project will be funded by some of the tribe's $98 million opioid settlement with drug companies.
    • By SEAN MURPHY
    Associated Press Writer

    OKLAHOMA CITY — As a child welfare specialist for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma more than a decade ago, Juli Skinner saw firsthand the impact of the opioid crisis on Cherokee families.

    Parents who began using the powerful painkillers after a surgery or injury became hooked and were losing custody of their children, babies were being born addicted and young people who ended up in foster care were aging out of the system and becoming addicted themselves, resulting in a generational impact.


     
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