Some states, like North Carolina and Colorado, have posted their distribution specifics online. Mendocino County, which has one of the highest opioid overdose death rates in the state, was allocated about $185,000.Īccess to "this information is revolutionary for people who care about how this money will be used," says Dennis Cauchon, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Harm Reduction Ohio. In California, Los Angeles County was allocated $6.3 million from Janssen, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, this year. (Several other opioid-related companies will start making payments later this year.) More than 200 spreadsheets detail the amounts paid by four of the companies involved in national settlements. But finding out the precise amount each city or county is receiving has been nearly impossible because the firm administering the settlement hasn't made the information public.Īfter more than a month of communications with state attorneys general, private lawyers working on the settlement, and the settlement administrators, KFF Health News has obtained documents showing the exact dollar amounts - down to the cent - that local governments were allocated for 20. The companies are shelling out more than $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits. Thousands of local governments nationwide are receiving settlement money from companies that made, distributed, or sold opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and Walmart. State and local governments have received about $3 billion so far out of $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits. Marianne Sinisi organized the installation after her son died of an overdose. Public art in Altoona, Penn., one of many cities hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
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