opioid lawsuit

The Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board awarded $11 million in grants to 71 cities, counties, school districts and public trusts, to help them address the state’s opioid crisis during its Tuesday meeting.

The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General has received 101 applications for an initial round of opioid lawsuit settlement grants.

The Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board has received over 250 letters from local groups for $23 million in grants meant to counteract the impacts of the opioid epidemic.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board will begin awarding eligible groups money to counteract some impacts from the opioid epidemic.

After an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, the state will lose some - but not all - of the money it secured suing opioid manufacturers.

Attorneys in the state’s sprawling opioid lawsuit have bragged that they slept on cots in their offices and went through millions of pages of evidence.But…