• Springfield announces plans for opioid settlement funds

  June 14, 2022
  ...administration has worked with community stakeholders and regional partners for years to address substance abuse and opioids, and officials developed their opioid settlement priorities based on that experience. “A life...
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• AG Healey announces increase for municipalities in opioid settlement

  March 9, 2022
  Attorney General Maura Healey today announced that Massachusetts municipalities that sign onto statewide opioid settlements with opioid distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson, opioid-maker Johnson & Johnson, and future statewide...
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• Municipalities must respond by April 18 for additional opioid settlement funds

  February 15, 2023
  ...across Massachusetts. Last week, the National Opioid Settlement implementation administrator, Rubris, emailed a package of information and materials to municipalities that they must complete for each of the settlements by...
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• Process begins this month for statewide opioid settlement payments

  June 6, 2022
  ...an email this month from settlement administrator Brown Greer with instructions about how to establish an account in the National Opioid Settlements Portal. Through the portal, municipalities will need to...
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• Webinars to discuss allocation of opioid settlement funds

  August 31, 2023
  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has contracted with JSI Research & Training Institute to provide training and technical assistance to municipalities regarding the allocation of opioid settlement funds. JSI...
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• Deadline for joining opioid settlements is Jan. 2

  December 9, 2021
  ...Office of the Attorney General, Attn: Opioid Settlement Team, One Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108; or • Registering online using their municipality’s unique registration code and completing the sign-on process...
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• AG, DPH to host virtual forum about statewide opioid settlements on June 24

  June 16, 2022
  ...p.m. The forum will provide information about settlements with opioid distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal and McKesson and opioid manufacturer Johnson & Johnson. Attendees will learn about when and how abatement funds...
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• Home

  April 2, 2018
  ...Massachusetts needs more housing. How much should be affordable vs. high-end. GBH June 15, 2023 Massachusetts to receive over $1 billion in opioid settlements. WBUR June 14, 2023 Mass. municipal...
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• AG and local leaders celebrate $525M to abate opioid crisis in Massachusetts

  April 6, 2022
  ...impact of opioids in their community. “Amesbury is no stranger to the opioid crisis, with nearly a dozen deaths in the last year due to opioid drugs,” Gove said. “It...
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• How to help when opioid misuse enters the workplace

  October 15, 2018
  While the past year has brought some modest improvements, opioid misuse and related deaths are still a national crisis, and the opioid-related death rate in Massachusetts is more than twice...
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