After slow start, opioid settlement money expected to flow to cities and counties
Jessica Hawkins with Healthy Minds Policy Initiative answers questions about local grant funding from the Opioid Abatement Board in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (Paul Monies/Oklahoma Watch)
Oklahoma Watch Paul Monies
Money from legal settlements against opioid manufacturers, distributors and retailers will finally start to trickle out to Oklahoma cities and counties in 2024, almost four years after lawmakers set up a board to administer the funds.
More than 250 local governments told the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board they were interested in applying for the grants. The money is supposed to go toward treatment…
