opioid lawsuit

The settlement could provide Michigan with millions of dollars to pay for treatment and recovery services.

The Michigan Senate passed legislation Thursday that would create the framework for how to spend the state's share of a $26 billion opioid settlement.

Michigan is about to receive nearly $800 million in settlement money from opioid manufacturers and distributors to address addiction in the state. Today’s show digs into the settlement and where that money will go to tackle Michigan’s opioid crisis. After that, we revisit two of our favorite author conversations from the past year.

The settlement involves three of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors and an opioid manufacturer. The companies will start releasing funds to a national administrator next month. Money will start flowing to state and local governments in the second or third quarter of this year.

Michigan is getting $17.5 million in federal funds to fight opioid overdose deaths and addiction.Andrea Taverna is Senior Advisor for Opioid Strategy with…

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says her office will file more lawsuits in 2020 against drug companies that distribute opioids.She is using a law…

Flint is the latest Michigan city to file a lawsuit against the nation’s largest manufacturers of opioid drugs.Lawyers for the city filed a 111 page brief…