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Wisconsin governments have received $160 million in opioid settlement funds. Here's where it's going.
Wisconsin Watch built the database nobody had: what every local government in the state has actually done with its opioid settlement money, compiled from the spending reports state law requires them to file. Eight governments had spent more than half their money by the end of 2025. Sixteen had spent none. We are carrying it because Pennsylvania is running the same settlement through the same kind of county-by-county machinery, with far less visibility, and because the method here is the one that answers the question rather than describing it.
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