Opioid Settlement

Connecticut, New York and 13 other states have announced a tentative $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, for their role in the opioid crisis.

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.

The $650,000 comes from the first part of the city’s opioid settlement funds. More than $2 million from federal lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and retailers will be distributed in New Haven in the coming years.

Travel time can impede a person's ability to treat opioid use disorder. CT officials and nonprofits are spending millions to change that.

Part of CT's opioid settlement money could go to addressing the crisis’ effect on incarcerated people, many of whom struggle with addiction.

Most CT municipalities had yet to use any opioid settlement funds as of last fall. But some have pooled their money and created partnerships.

After months of debate, the Connecticut Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee recommended allocating $500,000 of the $72.7 million currently available.

Millions of dollars in legal settlements are starting to flow into Connecticut to combat the opioid epidemic, and the stakes could not be higher.

The company and the Sackler family will pay $6 billion over 18 years to victims, survivors and the states involved.

Suffolk County has begun distributing $25 million to drug treatment and prevention centers. The money comes from the lawsuit settlement of opioid manufacturers and distributors.