Opioid Crisis

Despite a recommendation from New York’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board, Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration has announced it will not be funding overdose prevention centers.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for $290 million to be included in the next federal spending package to fund anti-drug initiatives following a recent increase in rainbow fentanyl.

Towns in Connecticut are deciding how to spend the National Opioid Settlement money they earned in a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies.

Connecticut lawmakers are considering how to spend some of the state’s opioid settlement money. They are looking at funding supervised injection sites to help curb overdoses.

Suffolk County gets its first round of opioid settlement payments.

Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone announced the first round of grant funding available after suing opioid manufacturers and distributors.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong was in Waterbury to announce that the first $11 million had been paid. Most of the money would go to opioid treatment and prevention programs in the state's 169 cities and towns.

A judge approved the bonuses on Wednesday for more than 480 Purdue Pharma employees based in Stamford. A $3 million raise for CEO and President Craig Landau will be up for review on June 15.

Teva Pharmaceuticals was the last company left in the landmark trial against a slew of drug companies and pharmacies. The other companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Allergan and McKesson , settled, paying over $1.5 billion in New York.

Before COVID-19 transformed all of our lives, one of the main public health concerns was the opioid crisis. In Connecticut, overdoses from opioid use went…