Optimizing the National Opioid Settlement Funds

Five top experts gathered in a virtual seminar at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss how $54 billion in opioid settlement funds can best be used by states, counties, and municipalities that are beginning to receive them. The panelists pointed out a number of barriers and unsettled issues that will impact how effective the funding will be. The purpose of the money from a dozen pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution companies is to address the drug addiction and overdose crisis their products created. The seminar was co-sponsored by Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI)and the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH). See more news and videos at ldi.upenn.edu