The agency that negotiated the opioid settlements has the fewest reporting requirements. Here’s how it’s spending its money.

The attorney general’s office has no formal distribution process and says it can respond ‘quickly and creatively’ to urgent funding requests.

Over the past five years, the attorney general’s office, with Aaron Frey at the helm, has secured for Maine more than $260 million in settlements with major pharmaceutical companies accused of “supercharging” the opioid epidemic.
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Source: Portland Press Herald | Published: 2025-12-21T20:53:13Z

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