CPR by By Allison Sherry December 12, 2019
How much Colorado gets in opioid settlement money is still unclear – and it could be more than a year away from landing in state coffers – but Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday assured people in Pueblo
hard hit by the addiction crisis that the money will go towards treatment.
Weiser has joined a handful of lawsuits against drug manufacturers, including a suit against the Sackler family, which controls Purdue Pharma. He said Colorado will receive “in the tens of millions†over 10 years. That case, filed in the fall, has not been settled.
He promised that eventually the money would all go towards building and expanding recovery programs – particularly in southern Colorado, where jails are clogged with people facing drug charges and in withdrawal.
Weiser contrasted his plans with tobacco settlement money, much of which was used for other line items in state budgets and “now we have a vaping crisis,†he said.
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https://www.cpr.org/2019/12/12/ag-weiser-promises-opioid-settlement-money-will-be-spent-in-southern-colorado/
