Agenda 12/09/2025 Item #16D15 (Recognize the McKinsey & Co., Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultation Litigation (Case No. 3:32-md-02996-CRB (N.D. California)) funds)12/9/2025
Item # 16.D.15
ID# 2025-4626
Executive Summary
Recommendation to recognize the McKinsey & Co., Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultation Litigation (Case No.
3:32-md-02996-CRB (N.D. California)) funds in the amount of $172,595.68, and the Endo Settlement funds in the
amount of $41,942.84, and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments. (Fund 1851 and 1852)
OBJECTIVE: Utilize the funds received from the Florida Opioid Settlement Fund to address the opioid epidemic,
including prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services for Collier County residents while supporting the county’s
strategic objective of promoting access to health, wellness, and human services.
CONSIDERATIONS: A local, state, and national crisis arose because of the manufacturing, distribution, and over-
prescribing of opioids, and resulted in opioid abuse, misuse, overdoses, addictions, and death throughout municipalities,
counties, states, and the nation. These activities contributed to the public health emergency and crisis commonly referred
to as the opioid epidemic. Collier County and the municipalities therein have suffered from this crisis which has caused
and is causing an undue strain on local government finances to implement programming to combat the opioid epidemic.
These funds may be used to mitigate the harmful effects of the opioid epidemic in the community and increase
educational campaigns to counteract misinformation about the addictive nature and harmful effects of opioids and
opioid abuse.
The National Opiate Litigation filed by the State of Florida and various local governments against pharmaceutical
companies has resulted in numerous settlements, to be distributed to the State of Florida over multiple years. At the June
22, 2021 (Agenda Item #16.K.8) meeting, the Board of County Commissioners (“Board”) approved Resolution No.
2021-136, authorizing Collier County to join with the State of Florida and other local governments as a Participant in the
State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and enter into formal agreements to participate in the Florida Plan for the
Florida Opioid Settlement.
On August 18, 2025, staff were notified of the intended allocation from the McKinsey settlement and funds were
received on September 17, 2025, in the amount of $172,595.68. Those eligible to receive these funds were subdivisions
following the same general intrastate methodologies as applied in the national opioid settlement with Janssen
Pharmaceuticals. Political subdivisions are eligible to be paid if they (a) were paid in Janssen; (b) have a population over
10,000; or (c) were litigating in McKinsey as identified by presence on Schedule A of the McKinsey settlement
agreement.
This allocation is part of a settlement that has been reached in a class action lawsuit against McKinsey & Company, Inc.,
and related entities claiming that McKinsey played a central role in the opioid crisis by advising opioid manufacturers
and other industry participants how to sell as many prescription opioids as possible. The lawsuit is known as In re
McKinsey & Co., Inc. National Prescription Opiate Consultant Litigation, Case No. 3:21-md-02996-CRB (N.D.
California).The Court ordered that Class members shall be required to use the settlement funds exclusively for approved
uses designed to abate the opioid epidemic as set forth in Exhibit E ("List of Opioid Remediation Uses") of the prior
MDL 2804 settlements. This is a one-time allocation.
On October 22, 2025, County staff were informed of the Endo appropriation. The $41,942.84 allocation is part of a
settlement reached with Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., also claiming that Endo played a role by deceptively marketing
opioid medications to overstate their efficacy and downplay the associated risk of addiction. The allocation for Endo
was to eligible subdivisions following the national opioid settlement methodology and exclusively approved for uses
designed to abate the opioid epidemic as set forth in Exhibit E (“List of Opioid Remediation Uses”). The funds are a
one-time allocation to the city/county fund.
Supports the county’s strategic objective of promoting access to health, wellness, and human services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Budget amendments are necessary to recognize revenue from the McKinsey Subdivisions
Settlement in the amount of $172,595.68. These funds will be allocated to the Opioid National Fund (1851), Project
33960. Additionally, a second budget amendment is required to recognize revenue from the Endo Settlement, totaling
$41,942.84. This revenue will be allocated to the Opioids Subdivision Fund (1852), Project 44085.
Collier County will allocate five percent (5%) from each of these distributions for administrative purposes, as approved
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Item # 16.D.15
ID# 2025-4626
by the State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The administrative amount for 33960 will be $8,629.78, and the
administrative amount for 44085 will be $2,097.14. There is no matching requirement associated with this item.
Fund/Project# Settlement Name Amount 5% Admin
1851/33960 McKinsey $172,595.68 $8,629.78
1852/44085 Endo $41,942.84 $2,097.14
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: There is no Growth Management impact associated with this item.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item has been approved as to form and legality and requires a majority vote for
Board approval. -JAK
RECOMMENDATION(S): To recognize the McKinsey & Co., Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultation
Litigation (Case No. 3:32-md-02996-CRB (N.D. California)) funds in the amount of $172,595.68, the Endo Settlement
funds in the amount of $41,942.84, and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments. (Fund 1851 and 1852)
PREPARED BY: Carolyn Noble, Grant Coordinator, Community and Human Services Division
ATTACHMENTS:
1. BA Endo Settlement 10.28.25 KF
2. BA Mckinsey Settlement 11.06.25 KF
3. Endo Settlement Payment received funds
4. Funds received FW_ McKinsey Subdivisions Settlement Payment - Collier County
5. Exhibit-E-Final-Distributor-Settlement-Agreement-8-11-21 (1)
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From:Carolyn Noble
To:Carolyn Noble
Subject:RE: Opioids; Endo Settlement Payment
Date:Thursday, October 23, 2025 3:15:07 PM
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Carolyn Noble
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Community & Human Services
Office:239-252-5321
Mobile:239-450-5186
2671 Airport Pulling Road, Suite 202
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To: Kristi Sonntag <Kristi.Sonntag@collier.gov>
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Dear Representative for Collier County BOCC,
The Office of the Attorney General through our escrow agent, Wilmington Trust, has disbursed the
single city/ county payment relating to the Opioids Endo settlement by wire transfer on October 21, 2025. The
Collier County BOCC’s portion of the city/ county fund is $41,942.84.
Please forward this email to your Finance and Accounting Department to save as documentation for
this payment. A copy of the executed settlement agreement is located here: Endo settlement agreement.
If the point of contact has changed, please provided an updated contact by email to
jennifer.morganbyrd@myfloridalegal.com.
We greatly appreciate your assistance in this settlement distribution process.
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From:Kristi Sonntag
To:Carolyn Noble; Erica Robinson
Cc:Karla Figueroa; Darrick Gartley; Maggie Lopez
Subject:FW: McKinsey Subdivisions Settlement Payment - Collier County
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Kristi Sonntag
Division Director - Community & Human Services
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This is an official communication from the McKinsey Subdivisions Settlement.
A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against McKinsey & Company, Inc., and related entities claiming that
McKinsey played a central role in the opioid crisis by advising opioid manufacturers and other industry participants how to sell
as many prescription opioids as possible. The lawsuit is known as In re McKinsey & Co., Inc. National Prescription Opiate
Consultant Litigation, Case No. 3:21-md-02996-CRB (N.D. California). McKinsey denies plaintiffs' allegations.
Allocations to eligible subdivisions were made following the same general intrastate methodologies as applied in the national
opioids settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Political subdivisions are eligible to be paid if they (a) were paid in Janssen;
(b) have a population over 10,000; or (c) were litigating in McKinsey as identified by presence on Schedule A of the McKinsey
settlement agreement.
The Court has ordered that Class members shall be required to use the settlement funds exclusively for approved uses designed
to abate the opioid epidemic as set forth in Exhibit E ("List of Opioid Remediation Uses") of the prior MDL 2804 settlements.
For complete information on the Settlement, including allocation formulas, visit the Settlement website at
www.McKinseySubdivisionClassAction.com.
This email is to advise you that the McKinsey Subdivisions Settlement Program has initiated the payment outlined in the table
below to your Subdivision in accordance with the payment instructions provided in your Payment Election Form.
BG Entity ID State
Beneficiary
Type Beneficiary Name Payment Type Payment Amount Payment Method
2700 Florida
General
Purpose Collier County McKinsey $172,595.68 Wire Transfer
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For more information, visit www.McKinseySubdivisionClassAction.com. Consult your tax advisor if you have questions about
the tax implications of this payment. If you did not receive the wire transfer within 24 hours or check within 10 days, please
call (888) 441-2010 or email DirectingAdministrator@NationalOpioidOfficialSettlement.com.
Thank you,
BROWNGREER PLC
McKinsey Subdivisions Settlement Administrator
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EXHIBIT E
List of Opioid Remediation Uses
Schedule A
Core Strategies
States and Qualifying Block Grantees shall choose from among the abatement strategies listed in
Schedule B. However, priority shall be given to the following core abatement strategies (“Core
Strategies”).14
A. NALOXONE OR OTHER FDA-APPROVED DRUG TO
REVERSE OPIOID OVERDOSES
1. Expand training for first responders, schools, community
support groups and families; and
2. Increase distribution to individuals who are uninsured or
whose insurance does not cover the needed service.
B. MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (“MAT”)
DISTRIBUTION AND OTHER OPIOID-RELATED
TREATMENT
1. Increase distribution of MAT to individuals who are
uninsured or whose insurance does not cover the needed
service;
2. Provide education to school-based and youth-focused
programs that discourage or prevent misuse;
3. Provide MAT education and awareness training to
healthcare providers, EMTs, law enforcement, and other
first responders; and
4. Provide treatment and recovery support services such as
residential and inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient
treatment, outpatient therapy or counseling, and recovery
housing that allow or integrate medication and with other
support services.
14 As used in this Schedule A, words like “expand,” “fund,” “provide” or the like shall not indicate a preference for
new or existing programs.
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C. PREGNANT & POSTPARTUM WOMEN
1. Expand Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to
Treatment (“SBIRT”) services to non-Medicaid eligible or
uninsured pregnant women;
2. Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment and
recovery services, including MAT, for women with co-
occurring Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) and other
Substance Use Disorder (“SUD”)/Mental Health disorders
for uninsured individuals for up to 12 months postpartum;
and
3. Provide comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals
with OUD, including housing, transportation, job
placement/training, and childcare.
D. EXPANDING TREATMENT FOR NEONATAL
ABSTINENCE SYNDROME (“NAS”)
1. Expand comprehensive evidence-based and recovery
support for NAS babies;
2. Expand services for better continuum of care with infant-
need dyad; and
3. Expand long-term treatment and services for medical
monitoring of NAS babies and their families.
E. EXPANSION OF WARM HAND-OFF PROGRAMS AND
RECOVERY SERVICES
1. Expand services such as navigators and on-call teams to
begin MAT in hospital emergency departments;
2. Expand warm hand-off services to transition to recovery
services;
3. Broaden scope of recovery services to include co-occurring
SUD or mental health conditions;
4. Provide comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals
in recovery, including housing, transportation, job
placement/training, and childcare; and
5. Hire additional social workers or other behavioral health
workers to facilitate expansions above.
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F. TREATMENT FOR INCARCERATED POPULATION
1. Provide evidence-based treatment and recovery support,
including MAT for persons with OUD and co-occurring
SUD/MH disorders within and transitioning out of the
criminal justice system; and
2. Increase funding for jails to provide treatment to inmates
with OUD.
G. PREVENTION PROGRAMS
1. Funding for media campaigns to prevent opioid use (similar
to the FDA’s “Real Cost” campaign to prevent youth from
misusing tobacco);
2. Funding for evidence-based prevention programs in
schools;
3. Funding for medical provider education and outreach
regarding best prescribing practices for opioids consistent
with the 2016 CDC guidelines, including providers at
hospitals (academic detailing);
4. Funding for community drug disposal programs; and
5. Funding and training for first responders to participate in
pre-arrest diversion programs, post-overdose response
teams, or similar strategies that connect at-risk individuals
to behavioral health services and supports.
H. EXPANDING SYRINGE SERVICE PROGRAMS
1. Provide comprehensive syringe services programs with
more wrap-around services, including linkage to OUD
treatment, access to sterile syringes and linkage to care and
treatment of infectious diseases.
I. EVIDENCE-BASED DATA COLLECTION AND
RESEARCH ANALYZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
ABATEMENT STRATEGIES WITHIN THE STATE
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Schedule B
Approved Uses
Support treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and any co-occurring Substance Use Disorder
or Mental Health (SUD/MH) conditions through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs
or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
PART ONE: TREATMENT
A. TREAT OPIOID USE DISORDER (OUD)
Support treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) and any co-occurring Substance Use
Disorder or Mental Health (“SUD/MH”) conditions through evidence-based or evidence-
informed programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, those that:15
1. Expand availability of treatment for OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions, including all forms of Medication-Assisted Treatment (“MAT”)
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
2. Support and reimburse evidence-based services that adhere to the American
Society of Addiction Medicine (“ASAM”) continuum of care for OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions.
3. Expand telehealth to increase access to treatment for OUD and any co-occurring
SUD/MH conditions, including MAT, as well as counseling, psychiatric support,
and other treatment and recovery support services.
4. Improve oversight of Opioid Treatment Programs (“OTPs”) to assure evidence-
based or evidence-informed practices such as adequate methadone dosing and low
threshold approaches to treatment.
5. Support mobile intervention, treatment, and recovery services, offered by
qualified professionals and service providers, such as peer recovery coaches, for
persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions and for persons
who have experienced an opioid overdose.
6. Provide treatment of trauma for individuals with OUD (e.g., violence, sexual
assault, human trafficking, or adverse childhood experiences) and family
members (e.g., surviving family members after an overdose or overdose fatality),
and training of health care personnel to identify and address such trauma.
7. Support evidence-based withdrawal management services for people with OUD
and any co-occurring mental health conditions.
15 As used in this Schedule B, words like “expand,” “fund,” “provide” or the like shall not indicate a preference for
new or existing programs.
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8. Provide training on MAT for health care providers, first responders, students, or
other supporting professionals, such as peer recovery coaches or recovery
outreach specialists, including telementoring to assist community-based providers
in rural or underserved areas.
9. Support workforce development for addiction professionals who work with
persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
10. Offer fellowships for addiction medicine specialists for direct patient care,
instructors, and clinical research for treatments.
11. Offer scholarships and supports for behavioral health practitioners or workers
involved in addressing OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH or mental health
conditions, including, but not limited to, training, scholarships, fellowships, loan
repayment programs, or other incentives for providers to work in rural or
underserved areas.
12. Provide funding and training for clinicians to obtain a waiver under the federal
Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (“DATA 2000”) to prescribe MAT for
OUD, and provide technical assistance and professional support to clinicians who
have obtained a DATA 2000 waiver.
13. Disseminate of web-based training curricula, such as the American Academy of
Addiction Psychiatry’s Provider Clinical Support Service–Opioids web-based
training curriculum and motivational interviewing.
14. Develop and disseminate new curricula, such as the American Academy of
Addiction Psychiatry’s Provider Clinical Support Service for Medication–
Assisted Treatment.
B. SUPPORT PEOPLE IN TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
Support people in recovery from OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions
through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or strategies that may include,
but are not limited to, the programs or strategies that:
1. Provide comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals with OUD and any
co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including housing, transportation, education,
job placement, job training, or childcare.
2. Provide the full continuum of care of treatment and recovery services for OUD
and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including supportive housing, peer
support services and counseling, community navigators, case management, and
connections to community-based services.
3. Provide counseling, peer-support, recovery case management and residential
treatment with access to medications for those who need it to persons with OUD
and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
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4. Provide access to housing for people with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions, including supportive housing, recovery housing, housing assistance
programs, training for housing providers, or recovery housing programs that allow
or integrate FDA-approved mediation with other support services.
5. Provide community support services, including social and legal services, to assist
in deinstitutionalizing persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions.
6. Support or expand peer-recovery centers, which may include support groups,
social events, computer access, or other services for persons with OUD and any
co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
7. Provide or support transportation to treatment or recovery programs or services
for persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
8. Provide employment training or educational services for persons in treatment for
or recovery from OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
9. Identify successful recovery programs such as physician, pilot, and college
recovery programs, and provide support and technical assistance to increase the
number and capacity of high-quality programs to help those in recovery.
10. Engage non-profits, faith-based communities, and community coalitions to
support people in treatment and recovery and to support family members in their
efforts to support the person with OUD in the family.
11. Provide training and development of procedures for government staff to
appropriately interact and provide social and other services to individuals with or
in recovery from OUD, including reducing stigma.
12. Support stigma reduction efforts regarding treatment and support for persons with
OUD, including reducing the stigma on effective treatment.
13. Create or support culturally appropriate services and programs for persons with
OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including new Americans.
14. Create and/or support recovery high schools.
15. Hire or train behavioral health workers to provide or expand any of the services or
supports listed above.
C. CONNECT PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP TO THE HELP THEY NEED
(CONNECTIONS TO CARE)
Provide connections to care for people who have—or are at risk of developing—OUD
and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions through evidence-based or evidence-informed
programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, those that:
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1. Ensure that health care providers are screening for OUD and other risk factors and
know how to appropriately counsel and treat (or refer if necessary) a patient for
OUD treatment.
2. Fund SBIRT programs to reduce the transition from use to disorders, including
SBIRT services to pregnant women who are uninsured or not eligible for
Medicaid.
3. Provide training and long-term implementation of SBIRT in key systems (health,
schools, colleges, criminal justice, and probation), with a focus on youth and
young adults when transition from misuse to opioid disorder is common.
4. Purchase automated versions of SBIRT and support ongoing costs of the
technology.
5. Expand services such as navigators and on-call teams to begin MAT in hospital
emergency departments.
6. Provide training for emergency room personnel treating opioid overdose patients
on post-discharge planning, including community referrals for MAT, recovery
case management or support services.
7. Support hospital programs that transition persons with OUD and any co-occurring
SUD/MH conditions, or persons who have experienced an opioid overdose, into
clinically appropriate follow-up care through a bridge clinic or similar approach.
8. Support crisis stabilization centers that serve as an alternative to hospital
emergency departments for persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions or persons that have experienced an opioid overdose.
9. Support the work of Emergency Medical Systems, including peer support
specialists, to connect individuals to treatment or other appropriate services
following an opioid overdose or other opioid-related adverse event.
10. Provide funding for peer support specialists or recovery coaches in emergency
departments, detox facilities, recovery centers, recovery housing, or similar
settings; offer services, supports, or connections to care to persons with OUD and
any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions or to persons who have experienced an
opioid overdose.
11. Expand warm hand-off services to transition to recovery services.
12. Create or support school-based contacts that parents can engage with to seek
immediate treatment services for their child; and support prevention, intervention,
treatment, and recovery programs focused on young people.
13. Develop and support best practices on addressing OUD in the workplace.
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14. Support assistance programs for health care providers with OUD.
15. Engage non-profits and the faith community as a system to support outreach for
treatment.
16. Support centralized call centers that provide information and connections to
appropriate services and supports for persons with OUD and any co-occurring
SUD/MH conditions.
D. ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE-INVOLVED PERSONS
Address the needs of persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions who
are involved in, are at risk of becoming involved in, or are transitioning out of the
criminal justice system through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or
strategies that may include, but are not limited to, those that:
1. Support pre-arrest or pre-arraignment diversion and deflection strategies for
persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including
established strategies such as:
1. Self-referral strategies such as the Angel Programs or the Police Assisted
Addiction Recovery Initiative (“PAARI”);
2. Active outreach strategies such as the Drug Abuse Response Team
(“DART”) model;
3. “Naloxone Plus” strategies, which work to ensure that individuals who
have received naloxone to reverse the effects of an overdose are then
linked to treatment programs or other appropriate services;
4. Officer prevention strategies, such as the Law Enforcement Assisted
Diversion (“LEAD”) model;
5. Officer intervention strategies such as the Leon County, Florida Adult
Civil Citation Network or the Chicago Westside Narcotics Diversion to
Treatment Initiative; or
6. Co-responder and/or alternative responder models to address OUD-related
911 calls with greater SUD expertise.
2. Support pre-trial services that connect individuals with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions to evidence-informed treatment, including MAT,
and related services.
3. Support treatment and recovery courts that provide evidence-based options for
persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
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4. Provide evidence-informed treatment, including MAT, recovery support, harm
reduction, or other appropriate services to individuals with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions who are incarcerated in jail or prison.
5. Provide evidence-informed treatment, including MAT, recovery support, harm
reduction, or other appropriate services to individuals with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions who are leaving jail or prison or have recently left
jail or prison, are on probation or parole, are under community corrections
supervision, or are in re-entry programs or facilities.
6. Support critical time interventions (“CTI”), particularly for individuals living with
dual-diagnosis OUD/serious mental illness, and services for individuals who face
immediate risks and service needs and risks upon release from correctional
settings.
7. Provide training on best practices for addressing the needs of criminal justice-
involved persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions to law
enforcement, correctional, or judicial personnel or to providers of treatment,
recovery, harm reduction, case management, or other services offered in
connection with any of the strategies described in this section.
E. ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF PREGNANT OR PARENTING WOMEN AND
THEIR FAMILIES, INCLUDING BABIES WITH NEONATAL ABSTINENCE
SYNDROME
Address the needs of pregnant or parenting women with OUD and any co-occurring
SUD/MH conditions, and the needs of their families, including babies with neonatal
abstinence syndrome (“NAS”), through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs
or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, those that:
1. Support evidence-based or evidence-informed treatment, including MAT,
recovery services and supports, and prevention services for pregnant women—or
women who could become pregnant—who have OUD and any co-occurring
SUD/MH conditions, and other measures to educate and provide support to
families affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
2. Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment and recovery services, including
MAT, for uninsured women with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions for up to 12 months postpartum.
3. Provide training for obstetricians or other healthcare personnel who work with
pregnant women and their families regarding treatment of OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions.
4. Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment and recovery support for NAS
babies; expand services for better continuum of care with infant-need dyad; and
expand long-term treatment and services for medical monitoring of NAS babies
and their families.
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5. Provide training to health care providers who work with pregnant or parenting
women on best practices for compliance with federal requirements that children
born with NAS get referred to appropriate services and receive a plan of safe care.
6. Provide child and family supports for parenting women with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions.
7. Provide enhanced family support and child care services for parents with OUD
and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
8. Provide enhanced support for children and family members suffering trauma as a
result of addiction in the family; and offer trauma-informed behavioral health
treatment for adverse childhood events.
9. Offer home-based wrap-around services to persons with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions, including, but not limited to, parent skills
training.
10. Provide support for Children’s Services—Fund additional positions and services,
including supportive housing and other residential services, relating to children
being removed from the home and/or placed in foster care due to custodial opioid
use.
PART TWO: PREVENTION
F. PREVENT OVER-PRESCRIBING AND ENSURE APPROPRIATE
PRESCRIBING AND DISPENSING OF OPIOIDS
Support efforts to prevent over-prescribing and ensure appropriate prescribing and
dispensing of opioids through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or
strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Funding medical provider education and outreach regarding best prescribing
practices for opioids consistent with the Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for
Chronic Pain from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including
providers at hospitals (academic detailing).
2. Training for health care providers regarding safe and responsible opioid
prescribing, dosing, and tapering patients off opioids.
3. Continuing Medical Education (CME) on appropriate prescribing of opioids.
4. Providing Support for non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training
providers to offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain.
5. Supporting enhancements or improvements to Prescription Drug Monitoring
Programs (“PDMPs”), including, but not limited to, improvements that:
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1. Increase the number of prescribers using PDMPs;
2. Improve point-of-care decision-making by increasing the quantity, quality,
or format of data available to prescribers using PDMPs, by improving the
interface that prescribers use to access PDMP data, or both; or
3. Enable states to use PDMP data in support of surveillance or intervention
strategies, including MAT referrals and follow-up for individuals
identified within PDMP data as likely to experience OUD in a manner that
complies with all relevant privacy and security laws and rules.
6. Ensuring PDMPs incorporate available overdose/naloxone deployment data,
including the United States Department of Transportation’s Emergency Medical
Technician overdose database in a manner that complies with all relevant privacy
and security laws and rules.
7. Increasing electronic prescribing to prevent diversion or forgery.
8. Educating dispensers on appropriate opioid dispensing.
G. PREVENT MISUSE OF OPIOIDS
Support efforts to discourage or prevent misuse of opioids through evidence-based or
evidence-informed programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
1. Funding media campaigns to prevent opioid misuse.
2. Corrective advertising or affirmative public education campaigns based on
evidence.
3. Public education relating to drug disposal.
4. Drug take-back disposal or destruction programs.
5. Funding community anti-drug coalitions that engage in drug prevention efforts.
6. Supporting community coalitions in implementing evidence-informed prevention,
such as reduced social access and physical access, stigma reduction—including
staffing, educational campaigns, support for people in treatment or recovery, or
training of coalitions in evidence-informed implementation, including the
Strategic Prevention Framework developed by the U.S. Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”).
7. Engaging non-profits and faith-based communities as systems to support
prevention.
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8. Funding evidence-based prevention programs in schools or evidence-informed
school and community education programs and campaigns for students, families,
school employees, school athletic programs, parent-teacher and student
associations, and others.
9. School-based or youth-focused programs or strategies that have demonstrated
effectiveness in preventing drug misuse and seem likely to be effective in
preventing the uptake and use of opioids.
10. Create or support community-based education or intervention services for
families, youth, and adolescents at risk for OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH
conditions.
11. Support evidence-informed programs or curricula to address mental health needs
of young people who may be at risk of misusing opioids or other drugs, including
emotional modulation and resilience skills.
12. Support greater access to mental health services and supports for young people,
including services and supports provided by school nurses, behavioral health
workers or other school staff, to address mental health needs in young people that
(when not properly addressed) increase the risk of opioid or another drug misuse.
H. PREVENT OVERDOSE DEATHS AND OTHER HARMS (HARM REDUCTION)
Support efforts to prevent or reduce overdose deaths or other opioid-related harms
through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or strategies that may include,
but are not limited to, the following:
1. Increased availability and distribution of naloxone and other drugs that treat
overdoses for first responders, overdose patients, individuals with OUD and their
friends and family members, schools, community navigators and outreach
workers, persons being released from jail or prison, or other members of the
general public.
2. Public health entities providing free naloxone to anyone in the community.
3. Training and education regarding naloxone and other drugs that treat overdoses
for first responders, overdose patients, patients taking opioids, families, schools,
community support groups, and other members of the general public.
4. Enabling school nurses and other school staff to respond to opioid overdoses, and
provide them with naloxone, training, and support.
5. Expanding, improving, or developing data tracking software and applications for
overdoses/naloxone revivals.
6. Public education relating to emergency responses to overdoses.
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7. Public education relating to immunity and Good Samaritan laws.
8. Educating first responders regarding the existence and operation of immunity and
Good Samaritan laws.
9. Syringe service programs and other evidence-informed programs to reduce harms
associated with intravenous drug use, including supplies, staffing, space, peer
support services, referrals to treatment, fentanyl checking, connections to care,
and the full range of harm reduction and treatment services provided by these
programs.
10. Expanding access to testing and treatment for infectious diseases such as HIV and
Hepatitis C resulting from intravenous opioid use.
11. Supporting mobile units that offer or provide referrals to harm reduction services,
treatment, recovery supports, health care, or other appropriate services to persons
that use opioids or persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions.
12. Providing training in harm reduction strategies to health care providers, students,
peer recovery coaches, recovery outreach specialists, or other professionals that
provide care to persons who use opioids or persons with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions.
13. Supporting screening for fentanyl in routine clinical toxicology testing.
PART THREE: OTHER STRATEGIES
I. FIRST RESPONDERS
In addition to items in section C, D and H relating to first responders, support the
following:
1. Education of law enforcement or other first responders regarding appropriate
practices and precautions when dealing with fentanyl or other drugs.
2. Provision of wellness and support services for first responders and others who
experience secondary trauma associated with opioid-related emergency events.
J. LEADERSHIP, PLANNING AND COORDINATION
Support efforts to provide leadership, planning, coordination, facilitations, training and
technical assistance to abate the opioid epidemic through activities, programs, or
strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Statewide, regional, local or community regional planning to identify root causes
of addiction and overdose, goals for reducing harms related to the opioid
epidemic, and areas and populations with the greatest needs for treatment
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intervention services, and to support training and technical assistance and other
strategies to abate the opioid epidemic described in this opioid abatement strategy
list.
2. A dashboard to (a) share reports, recommendations, or plans to spend opioid
settlement funds; (b) to show how opioid settlement funds have been spent; (c) to
report program or strategy outcomes; or (d) to track, share or visualize key opioid-
or health-related indicators and supports as identified through collaborative
statewide, regional, local or community processes.
3. Invest in infrastructure or staffing at government or not-for-profit agencies to
support collaborative, cross-system coordination with the purpose of preventing
overprescribing, opioid misuse, or opioid overdoses, treating those with OUD and
any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, supporting them in treatment or recovery,
connecting them to care, or implementing other strategies to abate the opioid
epidemic described in this opioid abatement strategy list.
4. Provide resources to staff government oversight and management of opioid
abatement programs.
K. TRAINING
In addition to the training referred to throughout this document, support training to abate
the opioid epidemic through activities, programs, or strategies that may include, but are
not limited to, those that:
1. Provide funding for staff training or networking programs and services to improve
the capability of government, community, and not-for-profit entities to abate the
opioid crisis.
2. Support infrastructure and staffing for collaborative cross-system coordination to
prevent opioid misuse, prevent overdoses, and treat those with OUD and any co-
occurring SUD/MH conditions, or implement other strategies to abate the opioid
epidemic described in this opioid abatement strategy list (e.g., health care,
primary care, pharmacies, PDMPs, etc.).
L. RESEARCH
Support opioid abatement research that may include, but is not limited to, the following:
1. Monitoring, surveillance, data collection and evaluation of programs and
strategies described in this opioid abatement strategy list.
2. Research non-opioid treatment of chronic pain.
3. Research on improved service delivery for modalities such as SBIRT that
demonstrate promising but mixed results in populations vulnerable to
opioid use disorders.
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4. Research on novel harm reduction and prevention efforts such as the
provision of fentanyl test strips.
5. Research on innovative supply-side enforcement efforts such as improved
detection of mail-based delivery of synthetic opioids.
6. Expanded research on swift/certain/fair models to reduce and deter opioid
misuse within criminal justice populations that build upon promising
approaches used to address other substances (e.g., Hawaii HOPE and
Dakota 24/7).
7. Epidemiological surveillance of OUD-related behaviors in critical
populations, including individuals entering the criminal justice system,
including, but not limited to approaches modeled on the Arrestee Drug
Abuse Monitoring (“ADAM”) system.
8. Qualitative and quantitative research regarding public health risks and
harm reduction opportunities within illicit drug markets, including surveys
of market participants who sell or distribute illicit opioids.
9. Geospatial analysis of access barriers to MAT and their association with
treatment engagement and treatment outcomes.
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