Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation expanding New York's Opioid Settlement Board.
Anne Constantino is the President and CEO of Horizon Health Services, a substance-use disorder, rehab, and mental health services provider in Buffalo.-based non-profit organization that provides drug and alcohol treatment.
That includes up to $1 billion from a settlement last July with drug distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen, $230 million from Johnson & Johnson and $200 million from the Sackler family, owner of Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma.
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