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How Are States Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? We Built a Database of Answers

KFF Health News

KFF Health News, partnering with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Shatterproof , a national nonprofit focused on addiction, undertook a yearlong investigation to find out. It’s the most comprehensive resource to date tracking some of the largest public health settlements in American history.

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12 States Promised To Open the Books on Their Opioid Settlement Funds. We Checked Up on Them.

KFF Health News

As state and local governments begin spending billions in opioid settlement funds , one of the loudest and most frequent questions from the public has been: Where are the dollars going? And several just squeaked by, meeting the letter of the law but falling far short of communicating to the public in a clear and meaningful manner.