News Ticker Court approves $700M prescription opioid class-action settlement for acute care hospitalsOpioid cash grab: As federal funding dries up, states turn to settlement moneyU.S. overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline everPurdue’s Sacklers back new bankruptcy settlement for opioid lawsuitsIn-hospital addiction consultations put opioid users on path to recoveryTrump administration extends emergency declaration for opioid crisisPurdue Pharma files new $7.4B bankruptcy reorganization plan to settle opioid claimsOpioid settlement windfall: Where the billions are goingReport: Kentucky still pays price for one of nation’s highest rates of opioid use disorderU.S. leads world in opioid deaths: CDCUsing legal settlement money, Orlando Health expands chronic opioid addiction program for people who end up in ERNew strategy brings substance abuse treatment into the hospitalEndo’s end-around: How one of the nation’s largest opioid makers escaped a $7 billion federal penaltyHow are states spending opioid settlement cash? We built a database of answersDrug distributors strike $300M opioid settlement with U.S. health plansLegal fight over Florida opioid money goes to state Supreme CourtLawmakers push DOJ to investigate PBMs over opioidsFeds say 13 pharma reps illegally sold nearly 70 million opioid pillsCash from opioid settlements flowing into Louisiana. Where will the money go?Multiple hospital groups point to opioid crisis for financial strugglesNew York’s first opioid settlement fund report details sparse information on spendingIn-hospital addiction consultations put opioid users on path to recoveryJohn Kasich: Government can’t be trusted with opioid settlementsHospital opioids case moves forward in MDLSouth Florida hospitals among 27 in state suing opioid makers and sellers, Broward lawsuit says21 Alabama hospitals file suit against makers of opioid-based drugsArkansas hospitals join opioid lawsuitsWill hospitals get their fair share of legal awards against opioid makers?Nearly 30 Texas-based hospitals sue J&J, Purdue, CVS and more over opioid epidemicGee, Kasich want hospitals to get opioid lawsuit settlement moneyNonprofit Would Send Opioid Settlements to Hospitals