The Opioid Settlements: What is Opioid Remediation?
Through several opioid-related settlements, Maryland is set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for "opioid remediation" - raising questions about what this term means and how this money is best spent. When nearly all of Maryland's counties signed on to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerning how settlement funds will be distributed, they agreed to conditions governing how those funds would be expended. Specifically, a qualifying county may spend its allocation toward "any [prospective] use…