USA. How Is Your County Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? Our New Tool Follows the Money.
USA. How Is Your County Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? Our New Tool Follows the Money.
LISTEN: Big cuts to Medicaid mean some states will have to scramble to keep offering treatment for addiction. KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” on Jan. 14 to explain why addiction care advocates worry opioid settlement money could end up plugging holes in state budgets instead of fighting the nation’s opioid crisis.
More than $50 billion in opioid settlement funds — meant to help curb the nation’s addiction crisis — is going to local and state governments. But because of lax reporting rules and little guidance on what’s appropriate, the money is generally being spent with next to no accountability. (KFF Health News, USA, 16.01.2026)
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