Attorney General Dave Yost today announced that the attorneys general of 49 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.
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Legislation was passed Thursday to commit the county's opioid settlement funds to get additional dollars from the OneOhio Recovery Foundation grant dollars. The state has more than a million dollars in the OneOhio program allocated for a fourteen-county region in northwest Ohio that includes Allen County. The application process is competitive, and the mental health and recovery services board has been working with multiple agencies to create programs for the possible grant.