Dose of Reality: Opioid Settlement Funds

Wisconsin is due to receive more than $750 million in total funding through 2038 as result of national litigation against the pharmaceutical industry.

2021 Wis. Act 57 requires the 87 local governments that participated in this litigation receive 70 percent of the funds, with the state receiving 30 percent of the funds.

We are managing the distribution of the state funds. We are required to submit a plan to the Joint Committee on Finance every year with details on the projects we intend to support with the payments we expect to receive for the funding year. Our plans cover state fiscal years (July 1-June 30).

See our plans and updates on the projects: State fiscal year 2025 | State fiscal year 2024 | State fiscal year 2023

We submit quarterly reports to the Joint Committee on Finance with details on how the opioid settlement funds allocated to us are being used by the organizations awarded grants. View the quarterly reports.

State fiscal year 2025 funding

We are expected to receive $36 million in opioid settlement payments in state fiscal year 2025.

Expand a section below to review how we're investing this funding into strategies to save lives. The strategies listed below were approved by the Joint Committee on Finance.

This funding is for prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for tribal members with the specific services funded determined by local needs.

Status

The grantees include:

  • Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa, $549,858
  • Forest County Potawatomi Community, $528,968
  • Ho-Chunk Nation, $524,864
  • Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, $547,302
  • Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, $549,858
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, $549,858
  • Oneida Nation, $549,858
  • Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, $549,858
  • Sokaogon Chippewa Community, $549,858
  • St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, $549,858
  • Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, $549,858

This funding is for naloxone, fentanyl test strips, drug disposal kits, and electronic lock boxes for storing and tracking drugs at small facilities like veterinary clinics, behavioral health facilities, surgery centers, nursing homes, fire stations, dental offices, correctional institutions, and rural clinics.

Status

$3,000,000 was used to purchase naloxone for the following community organizations participating in the Naloxone Direct Program. This naloxone will be given away at no cost from November 2024 to September 2025 to people at risk of an opioid overdose and people who may witness an overdose. The Naloxone Direct Program is open to county human services departments (or their designee), county or municipal public health departments (or their designee), tribal health clinics (or their designee), syringe services programs, recovery community organizations (programs with recovery coaches and certified peer specialists/certified parent peer specialists, and opioid treatment programs (programs certified under Wis. Admin. Code § DHS 75.59)

  • 10th Street Comprehensive Treatment Center-Milwaukee (opioid treatment program)
  • Adams County Public Health/Health and Human Services
  • Addiction Medical Solutions of Wisconsin- Onalaska (opioid treatment program)
  • Addiction Medical Solutions of Wisconsin -Oshkosh (opioid treatment program)
  • Addiction Resource Council-Pewaukee
  • Appleton Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Appleton Health Department
  • Ashland County Health and Human Services
  • Barron County Department of Health and Human Services
  • Bayfield County Health Department
  • Biehl Bridges to Recovery-Marinette
  • Brown County Public Health Department
  • Buffalo County Public Health Department
  • Calumet County Public Health Division
  • Catch the GYST-Kiel
  • CAYA Clinic-Madison
  • Chippewa County Department of Public Health
  • Clark County Health Department
  • Columbia County Health and Human Services- Health Department
  • Community Medical Services- Fond du Lac (opioid treatment program)
  • Community Medical Services- Madison (opioid treatment program)
  • Community Medical Services- Pewaukee (opioid treatment program)
  • Community Medical Services- South Milwaukee (opioid treatment program)
  • Community Medical Services- West Allis (opioid treatment program)
  • Crawford County Health and Human Services
  • Cudahy Health Department
  • De Pere Health Department
  • Dodge County Human Services and Health Department
  • Door County Public Health
  • Dunn County Health Department
  • Eau Claire City-County Health Department
  • Eau Claire Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Florence County Health Department
  • Fond du Lac County Health Department
  • Forest County Health Department
  • Franklin Health Department
  • George IV Recovery Fund-New Berlin
  • Green Bay Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Green County Human Services
  • Green Lake County Department of Health and Human Services
  • Greendale Public Health Department
  • Gundersen Heath System-La Crosse (opioid treatment program)
  • Gwayakobimadiziwin-Bad River Harm Reduction
  • Hales Corners Health Department
  • Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Health
  • Iowa County Health Department
  • Iron County Health Department
  • Jackson County Public Health
  • Jefferson County Health Department
  • Juneau County Health Department
  • Kenosha Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Kenosha County Public Health
  • Kewaunee County Public Health Department
  • La Crosse County Health Department
  • La Crosse County Human Services
  • Lac Courte Oreilles Bizhiki Wellness Center and Medication-Assisted Treatment Program
  • Lafayette County Human Services Department
  • Lighthouse Recovery Community Center-Manitowoc
  • Madison East Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Madison Street Medicine
  • Manitowoc County Public Health Department
  • Manitowoc County Human Services Department
  • Marinette County Public Health
  • Marquette County Health Department
  • Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Services
  • Milwaukee Health Department
  • North Central Health Care-Wausau
  • North Shore Health Department-Glendale
  • Oak Creek Health Department
  • Oconto County Health and Human Services Public Health Division
  • Ok Bluff Oxford House-Plover
  • Oneida Behavioral Health
  • Outagamie County Public Health Division
  • OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center-Madison
  • Pepin County Health Department
  • Peter Christensen Health Center-Lac du Flambeau
  • Pierce County Public Health
  • Polk County Health Department
  • Portage County Health and Human Services - Division of Public Health
  • Price County Health and Human Services - Public Health Unit
  • Psychological Addiction Services-Madison (opioid treatment program)
  • Public Health Madison and Dane County
  • Public Health Sauk County
  • Racine Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Racine County Human Services Department
  • Racine Public Health Department
  • Red Cliff Community Health Center-Bayfield
  • RIPple Drug Education & Awareness-Arcadia
  • Rock County Public Health Department
  • Rusk County Public Health Department
  • Samad's House-Milwaukee
  • Sarah's Hope & Recovery Foundation-Kenosha
  • Sawyer County Health and Human Services
  • Sheboygan Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Sheboygan County Health and Human Services Department
  • Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers-Milwaukee
  • Sokaogon Chippewa Health Clinic-Crandon
  • South Milwaukee/St. Francis Health Department
  • Southport Lighthouse Recovery Club-Kenosha
  • Southwest Suburban Health Department-West Allis
  • St. Croix Tribal Health Clinic-Webster
  • St. Croix County Health and Human Services
  • Start Healing Now-Horicon
  • Stockbridge-Munsee Community
  • Taylor County Health Department
  • Tellurian Behavioral Health-Madison
  • The La Crosse Lighthouse
  • Three Bridges Recovery-Wisconsin Rapids
  • Trempealeau County Health Department
  • Unified Community Services Grant County
  • United Garden Homes-Milwaukee
  • Unity Recovery Services-Appleton
  • Vernon County Health Department
  • Vilas County Public Health Department
  • Vin Baker Recovery-Milwaukee
  • Vivent Health - Appleton
  • Vivent Health - Beloit
  • Vivent Health - Eau Claire
  • Vivent Health - Green Bay
  • Vivent Health - Kenosha
  • Vivent Health - La Crosse
  • Vivent Health - Madison
  • Vivent Health-Milwaukee
  • Vivent Health - Schofield
  • Vivent Health - Superior
  • Walworth County Health and Human Services
  • Washburn County Public Health
  • Washington County Health and Human Services Department
  • Washington Ozaukee Public Health Department
  • Waukesha County Department of Health and Human Services
  • Waupaca County Department of Public Health
  • Wausau Comprehensive Treatment Center (opioid treatment program)
  • Waushara County Health Department
  • Wauwatosa Health Department
  • Winnebago County Public Health
  • Wisconsin Milkweed Alliance-Menomonie
  • Wisconsin Peer Alliance for Nurses-Hales Corners
  • Wisconsin Voices for Recovery - UW-Madison
  • Wood County Health Department

This funding is for projects that would expand prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services through the construction of new facilities and renovations of existing facilities. At least $2,310,000 of this funding must be awarded to an organization serving an area with fewer than 500,000 people.

Status

This funding has been awarded to:

  • Apricity (Appleton), $4,744,930.
  • United Community Center (Milwaukee), $2,955,070.

Apricity currently operates a 19-bed residential substance use treatment facility for men and a 20-bed women's residential substance use disorder treatment facility for women. These facilities are located in Appleton. The men's facility is moving to the women's facility, which will be renovated and expanded to house 70 beds open to men and women. This project is expected to break ground in 2025. The renovated and expanded building should be open for clients in 2026. 

United Community Center is building a new, 16-bed residential substance use disorder treatment facility for men in Milwaukee. This project is expected to break ground in 2025. The new building should be open for clients in 2026. 
 

This funding is for school-based prevention programs for K-12 students.

Status

This funding was given to the Department of Public Instruction. The Department of Public Instruction application process for this funding closed November 15, 2024.

This funding is for a community organization that serves youth to work with local law enforcement agencies to reduce opioid use.

Status

The Boys & Girls Club Fox Valley received this funding. This organization is working in partnership with the Wisconsin Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs and 25 other Boys & Girls Clubs organizations serving youth at 199 sites in 73 communities across the state with the SMART Moves Program, a program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America that provides youth with the information and skills to make healthy decisions.

This funding is for efforts to prevent and reduce drug use managed community substance use prevention coalitions, nonprofit agencies, and faith-based organizations

Status

The Alliance for Wisconsin Youth regional prevention centers will receive $500,000 of this funding. This funding will then be distributed to coalitions in each Alliance for Wisconsin Youth region.

This funding is to support the cost of medication-assisted treatment for people with an opioid use disorder.

Status

Applications for $1,000,000 of this funding for mobile opioid treatment programs were due September 27, 2024. Only one application was received. It did not meet the eligibility requirements for funding. Next steps for this funding have not yet been determined.

The Department of Corrections has received $1,500,000 of this funding to increase access to medication-assisted treatment to people involved in residential services programs throughout the state. This funding also supports mobile opioid treatment program services for clients on community supervision.

This funding is for tribal nations and counties to cover room and board costs for Medicaid members with an opioid use disorder or at risk for an opioid overdose who are in residential substance use disorder treatment programs. Federal law prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing residential substance use disorder treatment providers for a client’s room and board expenses. Lack of funds to cover room and board costs is the primary reason Medicaid members do not enroll in this level of treatment.

Status

Applications for this funding were due November 1, 2024.

This funding is for law enforcement agencies to support community drug disposal systems; programs that keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail; education and training for staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program; and treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. There is a requirement that a third of this funding be allocated to law enforcement agencies serving 70,000 or fewer people.

Status

This funding was awarded to:

  • The Columbia County Sheriff's Office for community drug disposal systems. ($5,000)
  • The Dane County Sheriff's Office for treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($247,681)
  • The Dunn County Sheriff's Office for programs that keep with an opioid use disorder out of jail. ($250,000)
  • The Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office for community drug disposal systems, programs that keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail, and treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($652,250)
  • The Jackson County Sheriff's Office for community drug disposal systems; programs that keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail; education and training for staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program; and treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($659,970)
  • The Kenosha County Sheriff's Department for treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($175,760)
  • The Madison Police Department for community drug disposal systems and programs that keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail. ($249,874)
  • The Marathon County Sheriff's Office for treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($398,320)
  • The Village of Cottage Grove Police Department for community drug disposal systems. ($5,000)
  • The Wood County Sheriff's Department for treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. ($276,142)

The $80,000 in funds not yet awarded are expected to be shared with smaller law enforcement agencies for community drug disposal systems. 

This funding is for a vendor to collect and maintain information regarding substance use disorder treatment providers for the state's substance use disorder treatment platform.

Status

The funding has been awarded to RehabPath (Recovery.com). RehabPath is due to receive $300,000 per year for the next four years to enhance profiles of Wisconsin-based substance use disorder treatment providers on Recovery.com.

This funding is for substance use data collection, monitoring, and reporting activities needed for the Department of Administration to implement 2021 Wis. Act 181.

Status

No update to provide at this time

This funding is for educating the public about opioid use disorder, responsible prescription opioid use, signs of opioid use in others, and proper opioid disposal.

Status

No update to provide at this time

This funding is for the Medical College of Wisconsin's Periscope Project, which is a free resource for health care providers caring for pregnant and postpartum women who are struggling with mental health or substance use disorders.

Status

The contracting process is underway to award this funding.

State fiscal year 2024 funding

We received $8 million in opioid settlement payments in state fiscal year 2024.

Expand a section below to review how we've invested this funding into strategies to save lives. The strategies listed below were approved by the Joint Committee on Finance.

This funding is for the purchase of NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips to be distributed to community agencies through the NARCAN® Direct Program and Fentanyl Test Strip Direct Program, as well as leave behind programs operated by emergency medical services agencies.

Status

$1,453,087 of this funding has been awarded to purchase NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips for community agencies to distribute to people using drugs and their families.

$397,044 of this funding has been awarded to purchase NARCAN® for law enforcement agencies to distribute in their communities.

This funding is for tribal nations and counties to cover room and board costs for Medicaid members with an opioid use disorder or at risk for an opioid overdose who are in residential substance use disorder treatment programs. Federal law prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing residential substance use disorder treatment providers for a client’s room and board expenses. Lack of funds to cover room and board costs is the primary reason Medicaid members do not enroll in this level of treatment.

Status

This funding has been awarded to agencies serving four Tribal nations and 53 counties.

  • Adams, $3,004
  • Ashland, $19,561
  • Barron, $13,625
  • Bayfield, $10,254
  • Brown, $37,366
  • Chippewa, $13,165
  • Clark, $17,553
  • Columbia, $32,731
  • Crawford, $10,726
  • Dane, $86,901
  • Dodge, $26,395
  • Door, $8,751
  • Douglas, $11,932
  • Dunn, $84,256
  • Eau Claire, $62,320
  • Fond du Lac, $11,899
  • Green, $12,104
  • Green Lake, $26,591
  • Ho-Chunk Nation, $109,863
  • Human Service Center (Forest, Oneida, Vilas), $6,704
  • Jackson, $8,781
  • Jefferson, $20,545
  • Kenosha, $50,276
  • Kewaunee, $8,379
  • La Crosse, $73,674
  • Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, $139,656
  • Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, $121,035
  • Manitowoc, $101,018
  • Menominee, $53,777
  • Milwaukee, $493,413
  • Monroe, $10,949
  • North Central Health Care (Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon), $97,759
  • Outagamie, $48,785
  • Ozaukee, $29,143
  • Pepin, $8,777
  • Racine, $26,814
  • Richland, $31,283
  • Rock, $98,821
  • Rusk, $6,517
  • Sauk, $15,900
  • Shawano, $16,386
  • Sheboygan, $56,607
  • St. Croix, $18,248
  • St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, $57,005
  • Taylor, $11,731
  • Unified Community Services (Grant and Iowa), $44,690
  • Washington, $39,762
  • Waupaca, $20,781
  • Waushara, $18,993
  • Winnebago, $93,104
  • Wood, $71,690

This funding is to support the cost of medication-assisted treatment for people with an opioid use disorder.

Status

The Department of Corrections is the recipient of this funding. The funding will be used to increase access to medication-assisted treatment to people receiving supports at residential services programs throughout the state. The identified residential services programs will support the continuation of medications for opioid use disorder for those with an active prescription. At intake, residential services programs treatment staff will screen clients for opioid treatment needs and refer clients to medication-assisted treatment services if they are interested in receiving medication-assisted treatment services as part of their treatment plan. The Department of Corrections also plans to contract with opioid treatment programs to mobile medication-assisted treatment services to people under supervision of the Division of Community Corrections in areas of the state where this service is not available.

This funding is to support a substance use disorder treatment directory known as Atlas, which is managed by Shatterproof.

Status

Shatterproof is using this funding to maintain the Atlas system.

This funding is to support training surgeons on practices to prevent opioid misuse following surgery through a program operated by the Surgical Collaborative of Wisconsin.

Status

The contract for this work is in place.

State fiscal year 2023 funding

We received about $31 million in opioid settlement payments in state fiscal year 2023.

Expand a section below to review how we've invested this funding into strategies to save lives. The strategies listed below were approved by the Joint Committee on Finance.

This funding is for public and private schools to implement evidence-based substance use prevention programming.

Status

The Department of Public Instruction has awarded 23 grants.

  • Appleton Area School District (Outagamie and Calumet counties), $16,394
  • Archdiocese of Milwaukee (Multiple counties), $2,000
  • Beloit School District (Rock County), $15,000
  • Black Hawk School District (Lafayette and Green counties), $5,607
  • Black River Falls School District (Clark, Jackson, and Monroe counties), $10,000
  • Dodgeville School District (Iowa County), $10,000
  • Eau Claire School District (Chippewa, Eau Claire, and Dunn counties), $23,333
  • Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District (Trempealeau County), $10,000
  • Great Lakes Community Conversation Corps (Racine County), $5,000
  • Holy Redeemer Christian Academy School District (Milwaukee County), $5,000
  • Horizon High School District (Dane County), $5,000
  • Johnson Creek School District (Jefferson County), $5,000
  • Lodi School District (Dane and Columbia counties), $18,333
  • Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee County), $25,000
  • Oregon School District (Dane, Green, and Rock counties), $15,000
  • Oshkosh Area School District (Winnebago County), $15,000
  • Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School (Ashland County), $5,000
  • Shawano School District (Shawano County), $18,333
  • Superior School District (Douglas County), $15,000
  • Transcenter for Youth (Milwaukee County), $5,000
  • Up Christian Academy (Milwaukee County), $6,000
  • Waupun Area School District (Dodge and Fond du Lac counties), $10,000
  • Wolf River Lutheran High School (Shawano County), $5,000

This funding is for a community organization that serves youth to work with local law enforcement agencies to reduce opioid use.

Status

The Boys & Girls Club Fox Valley received this funding. This organization is working in partnership with the Wisconsin Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs and 25 other Boys & Girls Clubs organizations serving youth at 199 sites in 73 communities across the state with the SMART Moves Program, a program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America that provides youth with the information and skills to make healthy decisions.

This funding is for the purchase NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips for community agencies with priority given to law enforcement agencies and first responders.

Status

$750,000 was used to purchase NARCAN® for 135 law enforcement agencies.

$285,000 was used to purchase NARCAN® for 23 organizations, including county agencies, opioid treatment programs, syringe services programs, and recovery community agencies.

$202,350 was used to purchase NARCAN® for 60 organizations, including county agencies, opioid treatment programs, and recovery community agencies.

$300,000 was used to purchase fentanyl test strips for 25 opioid treatment programs.

$300,000 was used to purchase fentanyl test strips and fentanyl test strip kits for law enforcement agencies to distribute in their communities.

$572,159 is supporting leave behind programs operated by emergency medical services providers in which the providers leave packages of NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips with people who have experienced an opioid overdose. Grants have been awarded to:

  • City of Lake Geneva Fire Department
  • Deer Grove EMS
  • City of Franklin Fire Department
  • City of Greenfield Fire Department
  • Gunderson Tri State Ambulance
  • City of Kenosha Fire Department
  • Laona Rescue Unit
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
  • Menomonee Falls Fire Department
  • Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management
  • City of Milwaukee Fire Department
  • North Shore Fire and Rescue
  • Northwestern Municipal EMS
  • City of Oak Creek Fire Department
  • Oconto Falls Area Ambulance
  • Orange Cross Ambulance
  • Portage County EMS
  • City of Racine Fire Department
  • City of South Milwaukee Fire Department
  • City of St. Croix Falls Fire Department
  • Town of Beloit Fire Department

$2,000,000 is supporting a public health vending machine program. The organizations listed below have been awarded grants to purchase, install, and stock vending machines with NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips.

  • Adams County Health and Human Services/Public Health
  • Ashland County Health and Human Services
  • City of Milwaukee Police Department
  • City of Racine Public Health Department
  • Dunn County Health Department
  • Eau Claire City-County Health Department
  • Embrace Services
  • Grand Chute Police Department
  • Jefferson County Health Department
  • Kenosha County Public Health
  • Langlade County Health Department
  • Manitowoc Health Department
  • Marinette County Public Health
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
  • Outagamie County Public Health Division
  • Portage County Public Health Division
  • Racine County Public Health Division
  • Rock County Human Services
  • Rock County Public Health Department
  • Rock County Sheriff's Office
  • Sauk County Public Health
  • St. Croix Tribal Health Clinic
  • Stockbridge-Munsee Community
  • Washington Ozaukee Public Health Department
  • Wausau Police Department
  • West Allis Health Department
  • Winnebago County Health Department
  • Wood County Health Department

This funding is to increase access to all forms of medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.

Status

We issued a grant funding opportunity in early 2023 for programs that offer low threshold access to medication for opioid use disorder, specifically buprenorphine. These programs are designed to reduce barriers to medication for opioid use disorder by having few requirements of patients and offering same-day support services. After care is initiated and when patients are stabilized, they are transitioned to other programs where they receive maintenance buprenorphine. The low threshold programs can offer services in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency departments, mobile treatment units, and pharmacies.

The grant funding opportunity received more applications than what could be funded. By supplementing this grant funding opportunity with opioid settlement funds, we were able to support more projects.

The opioid settlement funds are supporting projects managed by:

  • Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine
  • Milwaukee Health Service Systems
  • Quality Addiction Management
  • Addiction Medical Solutions

This funding is to facilitate the creation of additional lead agencies (hubs) that provide specialized substance use disorder treatment and support services in partnership with community partners (spokes).

Status

Vin Baker Recovery in Milwaukee received this funding.

This funding is for tribal nations and counties to cover room and board costs for Medicaid members with an opioid use disorder who are in residential substance use disorder treatment programs. Federal law prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing residential substance use disorder treatment providers for a client’s room and board expenses. Lack of funds to cover room and board costs is the primary reason Medicaid members do not enroll in this level of treatment.

Status

This funding has been awarded to agencies serving six tribal nations and 46 counties.

  • Adams County: $6,782
  • Ashland County: $22,608
  • Brown County: $86,002
  • Buffalo County: $9,931
  • Chippewa County: $16,433
  • Columbia County: $37,423
  • Crawford County: $14,876
  • Dane County: $101,813
  • Dodge County: $58,523
  • Door County: $13,032
  • Douglas County: $17,218
  • Dunn County: $27,876
  • Eau Claire County: $44,947
  • Green County: $16,006
  • Green Lake County: $30,372
  • Jackson County: $13,049
  • Jefferson County: $17,045
  • Kewaunee County: $11,622
  • Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians: $193,698
  • La Crosse County: $57,379

This funding is for renovations to existing facilities or construction of new facilities to provide prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services with a focus on expanding the number of beds available for inpatient treatment and pregnant and postpartum people with an opioid use disorder.

Status

This funding has been awarded to:

  • Arbor Place (Menomonie), $4,910,000 (new building is under construction)
  • Meta House (Milwaukee), $4,910,000 (new building is under construction)
  • Lighthouse Recovery Community Center (Manitowoc), $180,000 (renovated building opened in August 2024)

This funding is to develop and maintain a near real-time overdose surveillance and alert system for use by tribal nations, counties, and other providers statewide. A portion of this funding will support upgrades to Wisconsin's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.

Status

The Wisconsin Suspected Overdose Alerts for Rapid Response (WiSOARR) system was launched in October 2024.

This funding is for prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for tribal members with the specific services funded determined by local needs.

Status

Each of the 11 federally recognized tribal nations with members in Wisconsin received funding.

  • Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians: $553,421
  • Forest County Potawatomi Community: $540,546
  • Ho-Chunk Nation: $553,421
  • Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians: $478,665
  • Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians: $553,421
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin: $553,421
  • Oneida Nation: $553,421
  • Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians: $553,421
  • Sokaogon Chippewa Community Health Clinic: $553,421
  • St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin: $553,421
  • Stockbridge-Munsee Community: $553,421

This funding is for law enforcement agencies to support community drug disposal systems; programs that keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail; education and training for staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program; and treatment for jail residents with an opioid use disorder. There was a requirement that a third of this funding be allocated to law enforcement agencies serving 70,000 or fewer people.

Status

Six law enforcement agencies received grants in September 2023:

  • The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office received $4,950 for community drug disposal systems.
  • The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office received $290,605 to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program, and treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office received $350,453 for community drug disposal systems, programs to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail, and to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program
  • The Marathon County Sheriff’s Office received $214,625 to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program, and to treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office received $260,000 for programs to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail and to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program.
  • The Village of Cottage Grove Police Department received $1,000 for community drug disposal systems.

Twelve law enforcement agencies received grants in March 2024:

  • The Ashland County Sheriff’s Department received $228,152 to treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office received $1,000 to support community drug disposal systems.
  • The Jackson County Sheriff's Office received $425,352 to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program, to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail, and to treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The Kenosha County Sheriff's Department received $5,000 to support community drug disposal systems.
  • The City of Madison Police Department received $198,511 for programs to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail.
  • The Menominee Tribal Police Department received $14,000 to educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program, and to support community drug disposal programs.
  • The Racine County Sheriff's Office received $400,000 to treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The City of Rhinelander Police Department received $22,676 for programs to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail.
  • The Rock County Sheriff's Office received $328,676 educate and train staff on the medications for opioid use disorder, including how the medications are used as part of a treatment program, and to treat jail residents with an opioid use disorder.
  • The Shawano County Sheriff's Office received $5,000 to support community drug disposal systems.
  • The City of Sparta Police Department received $250,000 for programs to keep people with an opioid use disorder out of jail.

Quarterly reports

We are required to file quarterly reports with the Joint Committee on Finance on our progress investing the opioid settlement funds allocated to us.

State fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025)

2025 quarter 1 (PDF) - Filed September 30, 2024

State fiscal year 2024 (July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024)

State fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023)

There is no report for quarter 1 because our plan for the payments received in state fiscal year 2023 was not approved until September 2022.

Glossary

 
Last revised December 15, 2024