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Showing posts with label opioid settlement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opioid settlement. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Reporting on Addiction launches hub for journalists covering opioid addictions, deaths and settlement dollars

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As opioid settlement money continues to be divvied out to state and local governments, reporters can help their communities understand where...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

A virtual chat on Sept. 17 will explain how journalists can track and report on opioid settlement fund spending

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As part of its mission to help journalists cover opioid lawsuit settlement fund spending in their communities, Reporting on Addiction will h...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

W.Va. local governments get 24.5% of opioid settlement funds, but the oversight and how the funds are spent varies

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Graph by  Hannah Heiskell, data from  West Virginia First Memorandum of Understanding   In 2021, West Virginia lost more than one thousand r...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Proposed $7 billion Purdue settlement advances; leaves Sacklers exposed

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Adobe Stock photo Since last July when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Purdue Pharma opioid bankruptcy agreement, negotiation has contin...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Microgrant deadline extended for reporting on opioid settlement funds

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Reporting on Addiction, a collaborative movement staffed by media professionals working to address addiction, is extending its deadline to a...
Friday, December 13, 2024

States promised opioid settlement spending transparency, but many have already strayed from commitment

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When states and local governments anticipated billions in opioid settlement dollars, 12 states committed to 100% spending transparency, ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement; agreement 'broke a basic tenet of bankruptcy law'

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OxyContin's success made the Sacklers billionaires and sparked the U.S. opioid crisis. (A.S. photo) The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the ...
Friday, June 21, 2024

A simple tool can help identify and treat addiction while creating data for future programs and policies

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Using evidence-based addiction screening tools can help current and future patients. (Adobe Stock photo) Treating opioid addiction requires ...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Opioid settlement funds won't be enough for some of the country's hardest-hit regions to rebuild and recover

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For many counties, the opioid settlement funds won't be enough to address the losses. (Adobe Stock photo) As the first $50 billion in op...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Some opioid settlement money is used to raise salaries and replace other funding; victims' families say that's wrong

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Addiction recovery advocates say redirecting funds isn't in the 'spirit of the settlement.' (Adobe stock photo) As opioid settle...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Opioid settlement payments to state and local governments can now be tracked with this online tool

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KFF Health News tool, from BrownGreer data Beginning in 2022, state and local governments started receiving opioid settlement funds from com...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

As states receive more than $50 billion in opioid settlement money, companies are competing to get some of the funding

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Caution is advised with settlement money. (Photo by JP Valery, Unsplash) Money from opioid settlements began to hit state coffers in Novembe...