opioids

Milwaukee County will receive about $70 million to help treat and support people with substance use disorders. The money comes from a national opioid settlement but could go towards a wide range of services.

The collection of unwanted prescription drugs shows the challenge facing opioid treatment programs.

The Milwaukee County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition is working to address Milwaukee’s drug epidemic and on August 31, the coalition marked International Overdose Awareness Day. Dozens of people gathered in Humboldt Park to honor survivors and to remember the people who lost their lives to overdoses.

Understanding how to help someone experiencing an overdose can be the difference between life and death. Narcan can reverse an opioid withdrawal and the Milwaukee Turners are helping train people on how to use it through a free session led by MKE Overdose Prevention.

Wisconsin will receive nearly $31 million throughout the remainder of 2022 to address the opioid crisis. The money comes from the National Prescription Opiate Litigation Settlement.

Wisconsin is set to receive about $400 million as part of a proposed $26 billion national legal settlement over the opioid crisis. Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Wisconsin's share of the settlement with the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday.

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The largest-ever federal action concerning the U.S. opioid crisis has only gotten more complicated amid a slew of recent settlements. So here's a brief(ish) explainer breaking it down.