Funding the Fight: Early Impacts of Opioid Settlement Allocation Intensity on Mortality in the Midwest

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Brief Overview

This study exploits legally predetermined allocation formulas in the National Distributors Settlement Agreement to evaluate short-run effects of opioid settlement funding on county-level mortality during 2022-2023 in twelve Midwestern states.

Author

• Jiyue Wang, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee