
One Ohio Agreement: The One Ohio Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlines how the state and local governments will divide settlement money, who will control spending and what procedures will be used. The 11-page document can be found here.
Spending guidelines: A document called Ohio Abatement Strategies outlines how settlement money can be spent. The nine-page document can be found here.
Local government shares: Local governments will share 30% of the opioid settlement. That means every city, county, village and township that opted into the agreement — and more than 99% did — will get a percentage of the local government share. More than 2,000 local Ohio governments will get opioid settlement money. The percentage of the local share each government will receive can be found here.
One Ohio Regional Allocations: The non-profit (but not yet formed) One Ohio Foundation will get 55% of settlement money and spend it roughly equitably — adjusted for population, overdose deaths and other factors — in 19 regions. The share of settlement money expected to be spent in each region can be found here.
Ohio Ohio Regional Map: A map outlining the 19 One Ohio regions can be found here.
Ohio Opioid Settlement Agreement
This Memorandum of Understanding controls how opioid settlement funds received from wholesale distributors and manufacturers will be allocated in Ohio and who will control it.
Opioid Settlement Share Directly to Local Governments
More than 2,000 local governments in Ohio will receive opioid settlement money. This document estimates, by percentage, how the opioid settlement’s local share (30% of the total amount) will be divided.
Allowed Spending of Opioid Settlement Money
This eight-page document lists what Ohio governments can spend opioid settlement funds paid from legal settlements with wholesales distributors and opioid manufacturers.
Opioid Settlement Amounts Directly to Local Governments
More than 2,000 local governments in Ohio will receive opioid settlement money. This document estimates total payments that each government will receive from wholesale opioid distributors over 18 years.
