Articles Tagged with ''opioid crisis''

Illinois Governor Pritzker signed Executive Order 2020-02 to establish the Governor's Opioid Overdose Prevention and Recovery Steering Committee. Illinois is also dedicating $4.1 million state dollars to expand recovery and prevention services for individuals with opioid use disorder in the state.

The Department of Justice announced awards of more than $333 million to help communities affected by the opioid crisis.

The opioid epidemic cost the U.S. economy at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018, according to a Society of Actuaries’ (SOA) analysis of non-medical opioid use.

The Minnesota Senate has approved the House File 400, the Opioid Stewardship Fund bill.