North Carolina was among 15 states to reach the $7.4 billion settlement in January with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the ...

Since 2023, Durham Tech, Duke Health and the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition ... The funding—from nationwide settlements with opioid makers— is a portion of nearly $1 million the ...

Project MAPS (Mobile Addiction Treatment & Primary Care Services) a collaboration between Durham Technical Community College, Duke Health and the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition that ...

Members of the Sackler family who own the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma would hand over the company and up to $7 billion in ...

To address a budget deficit last year, Governor Katie Hobbs and Republicans struck a deal to dip into the $1.14 billion of the opioid settlement fund and allocated more than $100 million dollars ...

Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma filed a new bankruptcy plan on Tuesday, a major step towards finalizing a proposed opioid ...

Foremost, opioid settlement funds are to be spent to save lives. More specifically, communities are to make investments in youth substance abuse prevention programs, focus on racial equity and ...

While it's potentially one of the largest opioid settlements ever, he says victims stand to see only a small portion of the funds. Facing thousands of lawsuits over its role in the deadly opioid ...

Experts warn that some $10 million in opioid settlement funding could be going to programs that are not directly addressing ...

Other states like California have since banned such tools from being purchased with opioid settlement money. The current funding cycle has drawn criticism from groups that were not funded, and for the ...