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# SpotlightPA (10 Dec 2025)
- URL: https://news.opioidpolicy.org/spotlightpa-10-dec-2025/
- Published: 2025-12-11T01:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-15T01:46:21.000Z
- Description: WFAM Tracking in the News
- Author: Jonathan JK Stoltman (PhD)
- Tags: In the News, Opioid Settlement Money

# [Opioid settlement spending faces growing scrutiny as Pennsylvania awaits millions more](https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/12/opioid-settlement-spending-pennsylvania-counties-2025-health/)

> The Opioid Policy Institute [in July](https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlements-crowdsourced-database-monitor-spending-state-attorneys-general-oversight/) launched what it calls the [“the most comprehensive database of problematic opioid settlement spending.](https://opioidpolicy.org/osm-accountability)[”](https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlements-crowdsourced-database-monitor-spending-state-attorneys-general-oversight/) The website includes a form that allows people to submit items for consideration that they consider waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement of the funds. The website highlights what the organization considers inappropriate spending on speaker fees, [drug disposal pouches](https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/opioid-settlement-money-corporations-cash-cow/), [body scanners for jails](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/20/1206326239/law-enforcement-eyes-opioid-settlement-cash-for-squad-cars-and-body-scanners), and other items. [The database](https://airtable.com/appGmIZoQGM2l9yNk/shrLdbxHHYS5NKpHh/tblp8y09xmV6PAJVG?viewControls=on) includes dozens of examples from Pennsylvania, many of which cite Spotlight PA as a source.

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