Opioid settlement funds coming to Memphis nonprofits
Several Memphis nonprofit organizations have been selected in the first round of community grants totaling $80 million, stemming from opioid lawsuits against the makers of the prescription opioid OxyContin, in which it claims the pharmaceutical company knew its prescription painkiller was helping create the opioid epidemic. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks to the Memphis Rotary Club in October 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The $80 million, which will be divided among 85 awardees statewide, represents just a portion of the total settlement money the state will receive from opioid producers, distributors, pharmacies and marketers over an 18-year period.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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