🔥Opioid Settlement Spending in a Time of Budget Cuts
As state and local budgets shrink, the billions in opioid settlement funds represent both a lifeline and a challenge. How are communities balancing the need for addiction prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services with broader fiscal constraints?
In this 30-minute fireside chat, we’re joined by Shelly Weizman from Georgetown University to help us dig into the latest trends and controversies that will help you report on opioid settlement funds in a time of budgetary uncertainty.
Whether you're just getting started or deep into your settlement reporting, this session will offer practical tips on opioid spending in your community.
Reporting on Addiction Fireside Chat
Opioid Settlement Spending in a Time of Budget Cuts
Featuring Shelly Weizman from the Center on Addiction and Public Policy at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law
Event Info: Friday, Jan. 30 12 p.m. EST
Speaker Bio:
Shelly Weizman is a human rights lawyer who currently serves as the associate director of the Center on Addiction and Public Policy at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law and as faculty at Georgetown’s Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice. She previously worked in the governor’s office in New York, where she oversaw policy and operations related to addiction, mental health, and disabilities, and began her legal career as a civil rights attorney in New York City.
Shelly is the Associate Director, Center on Addiction and Public Policy at the O'Neill Institute at Georgetown Law and Adjunct Professor in Georgetown's Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice.
This event is supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundation.