Settlement Story of the Month

The OneOhio Recovery Foundation is charged with distributing 55% of the state’s opioid settlement funds. But some families and harm reduction groups are concerned the board lacks racial diversity.

Ohio is getting more than a billion dollars in settlement money to compensate for the harm of opioids. The state is taking lessons from past mistakes with an even larger drug settlement decades ago.

Ohio and its communities are expected to receive about $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies over the course of 18 years to compensate for harm caused by opioids. But there’s not much oversight over how the money will be spent.