At issue: whether opioid settlement money — paid by health care companies that were sued for fueling the opioid crisis and meant to help states abate addiction — should be funneled to two ...

In 2022, the state started receiving proceeds negotiated through the National Opioid Settlement with pharmaceutical companies. With $980 million due to come to Indiana over 18 years, the Indiana ...

Other drugmakers, distribution companies, pharmacy chains and others have already reached opioid lawsuit settlements worth ...

Activist Ryan Hampton sees a major flaw in the proposed $7.4 billion bankruptcy settlement reached by the OxyContin maker. While it's potentially one of the largest opioid settlements ever ...

BUT THE CITY HAS HARDLY SPENT ANY OF ITS OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS. IT’S AN ONGOING EMERGENCY IN NEW BEDFORD, 76 PEOPLE DIED FROM OPIOID RELATED OVERDOSES HERE IN 2023, A NUMBER THAT’S BEEN ...

spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink. That amount wasn't enough to solve the county's troubles, but it could have bought 333 kits of Narcan, a medication that can reverse ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York officials rejected two key recommendations from the state Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory ... center pilot programs in Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Money from national opioid lawsuit settlements could start supplementing Missoula city, county and nonprofit programs this fall after a joint board approved a funding plan for millions of dollars ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attendees will learn about stigma, opioid overdose reversal and Naloxone. Free Narcan kit's will be available at the presentation. The event will be held in the College of Health and Human Services ...