opioid settlement

The Indiana Recovery Alliance bought an outreach van and a larger space with the funding.

State officials said some local governments have opted to wait until funds build up more.

Most local governments haven’t started spending their opioid settlement dollars, according to a state report presented on Thursday.

Over the next two decades, tens of billions of dollars will flow into state coffers nationally from the National Opioid Settlement.

Indiana is set to receive $507 million in opioid settlement money over an 18-year period as part of a national lawsuit.

Part of the funds came from the Opioid Settlement payouts.

The money includes $19 million which will support, in part, addiction prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction services. It’s part of the $26 billion national opioid settlement reached with drug companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis.

The $507 million settlement is part of a roughly $26 billion payout across 46 states.

The settlement amount had been in flux for months, but a new state law evenly splits the money from the drug companies between the state and local governments.

Indiana’s estimated $507 million share is part of a roughly $26 billion nationwide payout that three opioid distributors and a drugmaker are expected to make to settle lawsuits filed over the nation’s opioid epidemic.