Opioid Settlement Funds: Policy Recommendations and Implementation Insights

State and local governments have received more than $50 billion in opioid settlement funds over 18 years to address harms from the opioid crisis. Join this Milbank Quarterly webinar drawing on articles regarding developing and implementing opioid settlement fund policies from their special issue, Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers Do?

Panelists will discuss:

• Leveraging data science and artificial intelligence to inform state and local resource allocation for overdose prevention.
• Developing policy recommendations for maximizing the health benefits of state opioid settlement funds.
• Applying lessons learned from New York State’s multi-agency implementation of programs to provide medication for opioid use disorder in carceral facilities using the settlement funds.