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Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash

Payback

Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash

Opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers are paying more than $54 billion in restitution to settle lawsuits about their role in the overdose epidemic, with little oversight on how the money is spent. We’re tracking how state and local governments use — or misuse — the cash.

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Map of Opioid Settlement Cash

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Table of state councils

Localize The Data

If you are a journalist who wants to investigate opioid settlement transparency data for your area, here’s how you can do that.

Curious to See How Much Opioid Settlement Cash Your Locality Received?

Share Your Settlement Story

Do you have concerns about how your state or locality is using the opioid settlement funds? Are they doing something effective that other places should replicate? Tell us here.

Promo and link to a radio segment about opioid settlements

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani appeared on WAMU and NPR’s “1A” on May 1 to discuss opioid settlement money and what people need to know to hold their governments accountable. She was 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’s Opioid Advisory Commission.

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Credits

Reporters

Aneri Pattani
Rae Ellen Bichell
Colleen DeGuzman
Megan Kalata

Producers

Lynne Shallcross
Lydia Zuraw

Editors

Stephanie Stapleton
Kelly Johnson
Terry Byrne
Gabe Brison-Trezise

Data Visualization

Juweek Adolphe