Pennsylvania’s Opioid Settlement Board Faces Calls for Transparency Amid Public Outcry

For years, Pennsylvania’s multi-billion dollar opioid settlement trust operated in the shadows, making critical funding decisions behind closed doors while families devastated by addiction were left in the dark. This crisis has claimed thousands of lives across the Commonwealth, yet those tasked with distributing billions in settlement money have largely shut out voices of the very communities they claim to serve. Why Does Transparency Still Elude Pennsylvania’s Opioid Trust? Only now—three years after its creation—has the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust reluctantly opened its doors for a single public listening session. The board’s power to withhold funds from...