More than money needed to fight drug scourge | Editorial

Palm Beach County commissioners have begun weighing how to divvy up $122 million from national opioid lawsuit settlements.

“Blood money,” one commissioner called it during a workshop.

Coupled with look-the-other-way state laws and physician-racketeers, opioid manufacturers and distributors made Palm Beach and Broward counties the national epicenter of the pill mill epidemic. Prescription drugs were a springboard to the heroin epidemic. Now, it’s a lethal influx of fentanyl, cocaine...