Crafting New York’s response to the opioid epidemic

March 31, 2022 – Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking for authority in the state budget to spend $265 million in funds secured from settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors, but Ashley Livingston, of Friends of Recovery Warran & Washington Counties, stresses that not a dime of that money should be spent without input from the state’s Opioid Settlement Board.