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    Commentary: Here’s how states can optimize $50 billion in opioid settlement funds

    by Kelly A. O’Connor, Chicago Tribune Jun 06, 2024 3 minutes
    A used needle drop box stands along Kensington Avenue during the clearing of a homeless encampment in the Kensington neighborhood on May 8, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is beginning a long-anticipated clearing of the high drug and crime area where police are closing off part of Kensington Avenue to remove a homeless...

    Kudos to John Oliver and HBO’s“Last Week Tonight” for their coverage of the opioid crisis and the resultant settlement. Many states are struggling to use the settlement funds effectively, and some are already repeating the waste, fraud and abuse involving Big Tobacco settlement funds ($206 billion) in the 1990s. But it’s still early, and states can course-correct and optimize use of the money.

    Opioid settlement funds began coming to states in 2022. More than will be distributed

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