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Most local governments haven’t started spending their opioid settlement dollars ... Of those, 80% haven’t spent any of their restricted funds, while 82% haven’t dipped into their ...
New York lawmakers are trying to pass a law that would clarify the Mental Hygiene Law, to ensure that money from a landmark ...
Hobbs and lawmakers of sweeping the opioid funds to backfill the deficit ... from Arizona’s share of a national opioid settlement to help balance the budget. It’s an issue that is deeply ...
On Feb. 22, 2022, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office announced the finalization of a $26 billion national settlement with opioid distributors ... been receiving the funds, Owensboro and ...
More requests for opioid settlement funds were made by organizations at Thursday’s Jefferson County Commissioners meeting — one by God’s Not Done Ministries and another by Ruth Haven — who ...
Mecklenburg County has utilized some of the settlement funds to distribute Naloxone, establish a post-overdose response team, ...
Lawmakers and advocates are divided on whether to allow the governor and legislature to weigh in on how hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid legal settlements are used. Gov. Ned Lamont ...
Kentucky is set to receive over $800 million in opioid settlement funds ... These choices may help balance ledgers, but they fundamentally betray the purpose of these funds.