Opioid Settlement Case Studies: Real Programs, Budgets & Outcomes
This library documents how communities across the country are using opioid settlement and abatement funds to expand prevention, treatment, recovery, and overdose prevention services. Each case study profiles a single program in a single jurisdiction and details its funding, partners, design, and outcomes, from same-day buprenorphine care in Burlington, Vermont, to a rural walk-in recovery center in Walker County, Alabama.
Use the filters to sort by settlement category, service type, population served, community type, state, and annual funding, then open any profile to review the budget, results, and lessons learned. Each model is presented as a reference point rather than a prescription, so you can adapt the elements that fit your community's needs and capacity.
Training Community Members for Frontline Behavioral Health Roles
Five cohorts drew trainees from 13 Kansas counties, preparing community members to work as community health workers with the mental health and addiction skills other courses leave out.
Preparing Physicians to Treat Addiction
A two-year, $199,929 grant surveyed about 1,480 Sedgwick County physicians, residents, and students on what blocks addiction care, built the training they named, and opened Wichita's first addiction fellowship.
Peer-Led Jail Recovery with Free Outpatient Handoff
80% of participants in a rural northwest Kansas jail class were still in recovery a year later, on $500,000 in opioid settlement awards across two cycles.
Tiered Housing Support for People Leaving Treatment
836 people leaving treatment moved into sober living homes across 20 Kansas counties through Mirror, Inc.'s weekly move-in assistance, all on a $280K award from 2024 to early 2026.
Multidisciplinary Homeless Response Team
Lawrence, KS reduced unsheltered homelessness from more than 200 people in 2023 to under 20 by early 2026, with a six-person peer-led street outreach team supported in 2025 by a $200K opioid settlement award.