Jeanette Wolfberg is reporting for The Columbia Paper Columbia and Greene counties introduced their Addiction Recovery Coordinator, Danielle Hotaling, at a media event October 23. Hotaling is responsible for coordinating all information from public, private and non-profit courses for those who suffer due to substance abuse. This will make it easier for people to go to the web and accurately identify and find the services they need,” said Beth Schuster, executive director of Twin County Recovery Services, Inc. Hotaling will report to Michael Cole, Columbia County director of Human Services; Maggie Graham, Greene County director of Community Services; and Schuster. Hiring an addiction recovery coordinator was one goal of the Columbia-Greene Addiction Coalition in response to the opioid abuse crisis. The two counties will split the cost of Hotaling’s salary. Hotaling started work October 1. She was previously employed by Project Safe Point, a harm reduction program in Albany, where she was lead case manager. Hotaling is from Columbia County, but now lives in Greene County. In 2017, legislators in Columbia and Greene counties developed the coalition, with the “support, direction, and authority of both” county legislatures, as well as Cole and Graham as co-chairs. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.