Resources for Implementing the Opioid Settlements

Public Planning and Using Abatement Funds

• Principles for the Use of Funds from the Opioid Litigation - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Toolkits for Evidence-based Spending

• Implementation Tools - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Human Rights Toolkit: How to Engage People with Lived Experience
• Opioid Epidemic Toolkit - National Association of County and City Health Officials
  • Mobilizing Community Partnerships in Rural Communities:  Strategies and Techniques - NACCHO
• Aligning City, County and State Resources to Address the Opioid Epidemic - National League of Cities
• Rural Opioid Educational Resources - National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health
• Opioid Solutions Center - National Association of Counties

Maine Strategies and Initiatives

• Maine Drug Data Hub
• Office of Behavioral Health
• Maine State Office of Rural Health

Finding Evidence-based Uses

• Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center - U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Evidence-Based Strategies for Abatement of Harms from the Opioid Epidemic - the Legal Action Center