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This episode discusses how communities are utilizing opioid settlement funds, highlighting various spending methods and their implications.

About this episode: A collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, KFF Health News, and Shatterproof is tracking how communities across the country are spending opioid settlement funds. In this episode: Abigail Winiker of the Bloomberg Overdose Prevention Initiative details the good, bad, and the ugly of the expenditures the team has tracked, from EMS-delivered harm reduction methods to punitive law enforcement investments to... D.A.R.E magicians? Guest: Abigail Winiker , PhD, MSPH, is an assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the program director of the Bloomberg Overdose Prevention Initiative . Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA , is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast , an editor for Expert Insights , and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: Six Innovations in Settlement Fund Spending —Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Innovations in Opioid Settlement Fund Spending | CMAP Nexus Series —Health Policy and Management – BSPH via YouTube From Narcan to Gun Silencers, Opioid Settlement Cash Pays Law…

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