Connecticut | NonOpioidChoices

State Facts

769

Deaths, or 83.9% of all overdose deaths in the year ending April 2025 involved opioids.¹

525,553

Claims, or 2.9% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 27 per prescriber.²

32.4

Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in Connecticut in 2023.³

$67.9 Billion

the estimated total societal cost of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Connecticut in 2024.⁴

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$551,617,631.3

State Spending Recommendation

Fund initiatives that provide training on safe and effective opioid prescribing and multimodal treatment of acute and chronic pain (including buprenorphine for acute pain), especially efforts that reduce unnecessary opioid prescriptions following common acute painful conditions.

Member & Endorser Footprint

Voices is backed by a broad coalition of organizations across the state united by a shared goal: ensuring patients have access to safe, effective,  and individualized pain management throughout the continuum of care.

Co-Sponsors (119th)

Rep. John Larson (D-CT-1)

2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation

SB 1474

SB 1474 requires opioid prescribers receiving Medicaid reimbursement to complete training in non-opioid pain management alternatives and advantages.

Introduced

03/06/2025

Plan Impact

Physician Counseling

Voices Letters

Testimony before the Connecticut Human Services Committee on SB No. 1474

Learn More

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool. https://cms-oeda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=5390718d875d4c049b1ac5976a9ff083

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/opioid-dispensing-rate-maps.html

4. Avalere Health (2025). The cost of addiction: Opioid use disorder in the United States. https://advisory.avalerehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Avalere-Health-White-Paper_The-cost-of-opioid-addiction_OUD-in-the-United-States.pdf