Opioid Settlement

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.

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.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced CVS and Walgreens will pay more than $10 billion nationwide to fight the opioid epidemic, with Connecticut receiving $127 million.

Attorney General William Tong announced on Tuesday Connecticut’s first payment from the recent multi-state Johnson and Johnson opioid settlement case of $42.7 million.

It could amount to the last round of huge settlements after years of litigation over the industry's role in an overdose crisis linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.

Bridgeport has received over $50,000 from the national Opioid Trust Settlement Fund as the result of an agreement between several states and four major opioid companies.

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