This Community Guide will describe how Delaware is spending its opioid settlements and whether Delaware is working to ensure community access to opioid settlement funds. Last revised September 1, 2024.
Ultimate Decisionmaker
Decision-making Process
The Delaware Behavioral Health Consortium distributes settlement funds based on recommendations from the (POSDC).
Supplantation
Prohibited
Grant Funding
Yes. See the POSDC’s page.
Public Input
Yes (public input and public hearings required)
Advisory Body
Yes (required). See the .
The POSDC is not required to include member(s) with lived and/or living experience.
Expenditures
Public reporting required. See the and view grant awards on the PSODC’s .
Updates
For updates on the Prescription Opioid Settlement Fund, visit the POSDC’s and . To view and subscribe to the POSDC’s calendared public events, including the meetings of its various committees, click “Subscriptions” .
$197.36 million[1]
[1] Total is rounded. See The Official Opioid Settlement Tracker Tally. Accessed September 1, 2024.
100% to the Prescription Opioid Settlement Fund
State-Local Agreement (Remediating Opioids Across Delaware through State-Municipal Abatement Partnership (‘ROADS MAP’) Agreement); Legislation (Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, Secs. 4808B, 5195, 5196, 5196A, 5196B); Commission Resolutions (Resolution Nos. 2022-1 and 2023-1)