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Agency: Attorney General
Media contact: Lynsey Mukomel 517-599-2746
Public inquiries: 517-335-7622
December 15, 2021
LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is reminding eligible municipalities to voluntarily participate in two historic opioid settlements, which would bring nearly $800 million to Michigan over 18 years.
The participation cutoff date for local governments to receive direct payments is Jan 2, 2022.
"The participation we've seen thus far is promising, but there are still dozens of eligible municipalities that have not yet completed registration," Nessel said. "I urge all of our state's eligible municipalities to register for direct payments. This money will bolster prevention and treatment efforts in our communities that have been hardest hit by the opioid crisis."
Based on the settlement terms, there are 277 local units of government - called subdivisions in the settlement agreement - eligible to participate in Michigan.
Each of Michigan's counties are part of that 277 total. Other municipalities are eligible if:
The Department has a full list of eligible subdivisions on its website.
As of today, Wednesday, 92 eligible subdivisions had not yet initiated the registration process, including some counties. The Department will be contacting those individual subdivisions, the majority of which are eligible townships.
Additionally, there are currently 93 eligible subdivisions that have initiated but not yet completed the participation agreement process.
Again, the deadline is Jan. 2 to participate and receive direct payments. Eligible subdivisions can email for help with the process.
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The State formally signed on to the proposed multibillion-dollar national settlements in August, which is with Johnson & Johnson and the three largest pharmaceutical distributors in the country: Cardinal Health, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen.
The historic agreements were announced in July and were the result of ongoing efforts to hold these companies responsible for their roles in contributing to the opioid epidemic gripping this country.
Michigan stands to receive up to nearly $800 million over the life of the settlements, which is dependent in part on participation of local governments. Spending priority would be placed on treatment and prevention. Only the 1998 national tobacco settlement has involved more dollars than this proposed settlement.
Additional information on this historic settlement can be found on the Department's website.
ADDITIONAL SETTLEMENT BACKGROUND
State negotiations were led by Attorneys General Josh Stein (NC), Herbert Slatery (TN) and the attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The agreement in principle was reached by all parties in October of 2019 and the parties have been working on the particulars of the settlement since then.
Funding Overview
Injunctive Relief Overview
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Requires Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, through court orders, to:
Requires Johnson & Johnson, through court orders, to:
A breakdown of how the settlement money is to be spent on opioid treatment and prevention is available here.
A national website has been created to provide additional information on the settlement.
Media contact: Lynsey Mukomel 517-599-2746
Public inquiries: 517-335-7622
December 15, 2021
LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is reminding eligible municipalities to voluntarily participate in two historic opioid settlements, which would bring nearly $800 million to Michigan over 18 years.
The participation cutoff date for local governments to receive direct payments is Jan 2, 2022.
"The participation we've seen thus far is promising, but there are still dozens of eligible municipalities that have not yet completed registration," Nessel said. "I urge all of our state's eligible municipalities to register for direct payments. This money will bolster prevention and treatment efforts in our communities that have been hardest hit by the opioid crisis."
Based on the settlement terms, there are 277 local units of government - called subdivisions in the settlement agreement - eligible to participate in Michigan.
Each of Michigan's counties are part of that 277 total. Other municipalities are eligible if:
- the municipality is currently litigating against the defendants; or
- the municipality has a population of 10,000 people or more.
The Department has a full list of eligible subdivisions on its website.
As of today, Wednesday, 92 eligible subdivisions had not yet initiated the registration process, including some counties. The Department will be contacting those individual subdivisions, the majority of which are eligible townships.
Additionally, there are currently 93 eligible subdivisions that have initiated but not yet completed the participation agreement process.
Again, the deadline is Jan. 2 to participate and receive direct payments. Eligible subdivisions can email for help with the process.
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The State formally signed on to the proposed multibillion-dollar national settlements in August, which is with Johnson & Johnson and the three largest pharmaceutical distributors in the country: Cardinal Health, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen.
The historic agreements were announced in July and were the result of ongoing efforts to hold these companies responsible for their roles in contributing to the opioid epidemic gripping this country.
Michigan stands to receive up to nearly $800 million over the life of the settlements, which is dependent in part on participation of local governments. Spending priority would be placed on treatment and prevention. Only the 1998 national tobacco settlement has involved more dollars than this proposed settlement.
Additional information on this historic settlement can be found on the Department's website.
ADDITIONAL SETTLEMENT BACKGROUND
State negotiations were led by Attorneys General Josh Stein (NC), Herbert Slatery (TN) and the attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The agreement in principle was reached by all parties in October of 2019 and the parties have been working on the particulars of the settlement since then.
Funding Overview
- The three distributors collectively will pay up to $21 billion over 18 years.
- Johnson & Johnson will pay up to $5 billion over nine years with up to $3.7 billion paid during the first three years.
- The total funding distributed will be determined by the overall degree of participation by both litigating and non-litigating state and local governments.
- The substantial majority of the money is to be spent on opioid treatment and prevention.
- Each state's share of the funding has been determined by agreement among the states using a formula that takes into account the population of the state along with the impact of the crisis on the state - the number of overdose deaths, the number of residents with substance use disorder, and the number of opioids prescribed.
Injunctive Relief Overview
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Requires Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, through court orders, to:
- Establish a centralized independent clearinghouse to provide all three distributors and state regulators with aggregated data and analytics about where drugs are going and how often, eliminating blind spots in the current systems used by distributors.
- Use data-driven systems to detect suspicious opioid orders from customer pharmacies.
- Terminate customer pharmacies' ability to receive shipments, and report those companies to state regulators, when they show certain signs of diversion.
- Prohibit shipping of and report suspicious opioid orders.
- Prohibit sales staff from influencing decisions related to identifying suspicious opioid orders.
- Require senior corporate officials to engage in regular oversight of anti-diversion efforts.
Requires Johnson & Johnson, through court orders, to:
- Stop selling opioids.
- Not fund or provide grants to third parties for promoting opioids.
- Not lobby on activities related to opioids.
- Share clinical trial data under the Yale University Open Data Access Project.
A breakdown of how the settlement money is to be spent on opioid treatment and prevention is available here.
A national website has been created to provide additional information on the settlement.
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