Christine Minhee, founder of OpioidSettlementTracker.com, gives an overview of the opioid settlements and advice on how to leverage the funds for harm reduction interventions.
This guidance document from the National Assocation of Counties (NACo) Opioid Solutions Center answers real questions from different counties across the country. Each example includes information about the state’s policy context, so that readers can assess which context is most similar to their own county.
This article outlines immediate, medium, and long-term investments that local jurisdictions can use to target their opioid settlement funds toward addressing overdose in their hardest-hit communities. These recommendations will help decision makers prioritize evidence-based and equitable solutions that can effectively reduce deaths, suffering, and health disparities.
This 3-part webinar series and resulting toolkit helps local health departments identify ways to leverage opioid settlement funds for public health and harm reduction initiatives
The annual addition of this Roadmap provides a path forward for elected officials, government agencies, and others involved with the allocation of opioid settlement funds.
Vital Strategies, in collaboration with Christine Minhee of OpioidSettlementTracker.com, produced this comprehensive guide on opioid settlement funds to demystify how the state will receive and allocate opioid settlement funds. The goal is to empower community advocates on the ground to effectively understand and engage with the settlement planning and spending process.
Integrating buprenorphine prescribing into OTP
Poster of same model.
This is a recording of a training that discusses how to normalize addiction through patient-centered care to improve outcomes and reduce overdose deaths.
These findings suggest that take-home naloxone supplied to patients in opioid treatment programs may be part of a targeted harm-reduction strategy to reduce negative outcomes associated with opioid overdose in the community.
