LISTEN: Big cuts to Medicaid mean some states will have to scramble to keep offering treatment for addiction. 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani appeared on WAMU’s 鈥淗ealth Hub鈥 on Jan. 14 to explain why addiction care advocates worry opioid settlement money could end up plugging holes in state budgets instead of fighting the nation’s opioid crisis.
in opioid settlement funds 鈥 meant to help curb the nation鈥檚 addiction crisis 鈥 is going to local and state governments. But because of lax reporting rules and little guidance on what鈥檚 appropriate, the money is generally being spent with next to no accountability.
Survivors of the overdose epidemic and families who lost loved ones to it are calling for stricter rules to govern how the payout can be used.
Senior correspondent Aneri Pattani appeared on WAMU鈥檚 鈥淗ealth Hub鈥 to talk about a new tool from 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Shatterproof that tracks opioid settlement funds.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News audio producers Zach Dyer and Taylor Cook contributed reporting to this segment.
