As states start to get opioid settlement cash, few are sharing how they spend it
Promoting transparency with opioid settlement money to ensure it goes towards evidence-based solutions.
Wired (6 Sept 2024)🔒 This is bad. +120,000 files +1.7 million activity logs 5.3 terabytes of data Intake files Audio of sessions Video of sessions Drug tests Therapy notes all were exposed on an unsecured database. This is a privacy and security disaster.
Exposing bad opioid policy stances in Michigan's 2024 US Senate candidate
Michigan could see over $100 million in opioid settlement money this year "Some of the most important spending has been increasing naloxone distribution; that's the overdose reversal medication," said Jonathan Soltman, the director of the Opioid Policy Institute. "Trying to target high-risk communities and make
It's time to change how the opioid settlement money is tracked in Michigan.