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Lawmakers and advocates are divided on whether to allow the governor and legislature to weigh in on how opioid legal settlements are used.
- February 21, 2025Source: Connecticut Mirror
Lawmakers weighed a bill that would create the facilities, where people can use drugs in a monitored setting, in four CT municipalities.
- February 07, 2025Source: CT Mirror
Despite a CT law ensuring the money would be used to counteract the epidemic, Lamont wants to tap into it to pay for social service programs.
- January 24, 2025Source: CT Mirror
Even the 'land of steady habits' has seen change over time. Here's a look at 10 ways Connecticut is becoming a different place.
- January 15, 2025Source: CT Mirror
The $58.6 million initiative will support people with opioid use disorder who are unhoused. It's OSAC's largest investment so far.
- December 24, 2024Source: CT Mirror
Several organizations say they haven’t heard back from the committee and are confused by OSAC’s methods for distributing the funds.
- August 26, 2024Source: CT Mirror
Comptroller Sean Scanlon, Attorney General William Tong and others stressed that resources are available to those struggling with addiction
- May 15, 2024Source: Connecticut Public Radio
The Connecticut Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee approved funding for a pretrial diversionary program, for people with substance use disorders in Connecticut.
- May 14, 2024Source: CT Mirror
Naloxone, court program, prison upgrades included in $8 million effort
- April 30, 2024
The majority of the estimated $206 billion resulting from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement have not gone to address smoking or public health. Following a similar settlement of a multi-state litigation, the state of Connecticut is expecting around $600 million to address the state’s opioid overdose crisis, which resulted in 1,340 overdose deaths in 2023 alone. To avoid the experience of the Tobacco funds, Yale faculty are proactively providing recommendations on how to spend these funds.