Approved Uses of Opioid Funds

Federally Approved Uses For Opioid Settlement Funds

Naloxone (NARCAN) to Reverse Overdoses

  • Expand training for first responders, schools, community groups

  • Increase access to uninsured or non-insurance covered individuals

Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Babies

  • Expand screening and referrals to services for uninsured pregnant women

  • Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment services, including MAT and long term services for babies and moms

  • Provide wrap-around services including housing, job placement, and childcare

Treatment for Incarcerated Population

  • Provide treatment in and transitioning out of jail

  • Increase funding to jails to provide treatment

Prevention Options

  • Media Campaigns to prevent opioid use

  • Funding for evidence based programs in schools

  • Funding for medical provider education and outreach

  • Drug disposal programs

  • Expanding syringe service programs, including access to sterile syringes and fentanyl strips, and linkage to care and treatment of infectious disease

  • Evidence based data collection to evaluate effectiveness of abatement dollars

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and other Opioid related treatment

  • Increase distribution of MAT for uninsured

  • Provide education to school based or youth focused programs

  • Provide MAT education to healthcare providers, EMT's, law enforcement and other first responders

  • Treatment and recovery support (inpatient and outpatient, recovery housing)

Expansion of Warm Handoff Programs

  • Navigators and on-call teams who can "hand off" a person who is struggling with opioid use to treatment and/or recovery services

What is MAT and Why is it Effective?

  • MAT (Medications for Opioid use disorder/MOUD) is the use of medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, which is effective in the treatment of opioid use disorders and can help some people sustain recovery FDA-approved medications for treatments of opioid use disorder include

  • MAT provides relief from the pain of debilitating withdrawal symptoms and improves brain function, reducing the potential for an overdose and relapse, while increasing levels of involvement and participating in treatment

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