Published May 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT

Maryland is rolling out a new dashboard that allows residents and others to see exactly how the state is stewarding the hundreds of millions of dollars it received in settlement money from opioid manufacturers and distributors.

The state hopes the dashboard will add a new level of transparency to how the state uses the nearly $750 million it will receive from entities like Purdue Pharma and CVS for their role in the opioid epidemic.

The dashboard allows visitors to track settlement funds down to local counties and municipalities and to see exactly what the money is spent on in those areas.

Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller exclusively told WYPR that the state is focusing the funds on local jurisdictions.

“Seventy percent of the funds go directly to the local jurisdictions, and exactly why this dashboard is important, because we'll understand whether these funds are being utilized in the best way possible,” Miller said.

Emily Keller, Maryland’s special secretary of overdose response, said the local focus will help get the funds to the people most in need.

“We know that there are areas that have been underserved, so we want to make sure that we are investing in the strategies such as prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction, which are all strategies and priorities of the Moore/Miller administration,” Keller said.

The state has already received about a quarter of a billion dollars from the settlements. The rest will come over the next 10-15 years.

Maryland recently came to an agreement with the Sackler Family, which owned Purdue Pharma.

The state will receive $90 million from that agreement.

Last year, the Maryland Office of Overdose Response published recommendations on how the state and localities should spend the funds.

The suggestions focus on five areas: Public safety, recovery, treatment, harm reduction and prevention.

They included concepts like supporting programs that focus on families dealing with substance use, expanding street-based outreach, increasing naloxone distribution, expanding access to recovery centers and promoting alternatives to incarceration for drug-related offenses.

The state recently awarded $12.4 million to 28 organizations across Maryland to prevent overdoses and educate people about opioids.