{"id":1191,"date":"2023-05-01T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2023-05-01T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:27:51","slug":"listen-how-are-states-spending-money-from-the-opioid-settlements-its-not-easy-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Listen: How Are States Spending Money From the Opioid Settlements? It\u2019s Not Easy to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"posted-on\" datetime=\"2023-05-01T17:15:00-04:00\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tMay 1, 2023\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<textarea id=\"republish-content\" class=\"form-control\" rows=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>Opioid painkillers have left millions of Americans addicted or dead over the past three decades. Now, state and local governments are receiving more than $50 billion in settlement funds from the companies accused of aggressively promoting those medications. Many people see the money, which will be distributed over the next 15 years, as an opportunity to transform the country\u2019s addiction treatment landscape.<\/p>\n<p>But many states aren\u2019t being transparent about where dollars are going, and others are facing contentious battles over what should be funded. Although most of the settlements require states to spend the bulk of the money on addiction treatment and prevention, defining those concepts often depends on geography and politics.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent<a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/segments\/states-arent-being-transparent-about-how-theyre-spending-opioid-settlements\/\"> Aneri Pattani appeared on NPR\u2019s \u201c1A\u201d on May 1<\/a> to discuss these critical issues and what people need to know to hold their governments accountable. She\u2019s joined by three people featured in her previous reporting: Jackie Lewis, a mother and grandmother personally affected by the opioid epidemic; Christine Minhee, founder of OpioidSettlementTracker.com; and Cara Poland, an addiction medicine doctor and chair of Michigan\u2019s Opioid Advisory Commission.<\/p>\n<p><\/textarea><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm copy-btn\" data-clipboard-target=\"#republish-content\">Copy HTML<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-details\">\n<p>We encourage organizations to republish our content, free of charge. Here\u2019s what we ask:<\/p>\n<p>You must credit us as the original publisher, with a hyperlink to our kffhealthnews.org site. If possible, please include the original author(s) and KFF Health News\u201d in the byline. Please preserve the hyperlinks in the story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note, not everything on kffhealthnews.org is available for republishing. 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