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New York law paves way for distributing opioid settlement funds to treatment
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33127
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , veto , state (computer science) , law , stage (stratigraphy) , law and economics , business , political science , economics , finance , computer science , politics , biology , paleontology , algorithm , payment
The stage is set for settlement money from state lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies to go directly to treatment and recovery. The stage is New York, where last week New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not veto, as had been expected, just such a law.