{"title":"The truth about NYS's opioid settlement fund","authors":"Rob Kent","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34608","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>I have been listening for years to statements from NYS state government officials touting that fact that $400 million of the $500 million received from the settlement of the lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors has been “made available” to the stakeholders trying to save lives. When, I and others, have asked how much of the money that has been “made available” has been received and spent by the addiction care system, we have received no response!</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.34608","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I have been listening for years to statements from NYS state government officials touting that fact that $400 million of the $500 million received from the settlement of the lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors has been “made available” to the stakeholders trying to save lives. When, I and others, have asked how much of the money that has been “made available” has been received and spent by the addiction care system, we have received no response!