New Jersey
State Facts
Deaths, or 79.3% of all overdose deaths in the year ending April 2025 involved opioids.¹
Claims, or 2.6% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 28 per prescriber.²
Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in New Jersey in 2023.³
the estimated total societal cost of opioid use disorder (OUD) to the state in 2024.⁴
Opioid Settlement Funds
State spending recommendation treatment responses focused on alternatives to opioids for pain management.
Member & Endorser Footprint
Co-Sponsors (119th)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation
A4682
Prohibits carriers, Medicaid and School Employees’ Health Benefits Commission to deny coverage of a nonopioid in favor of an opioid drug or to require person to try and opioid prior to approving the nonopioid. Formulary will not disadvantage or discourage nonopioid with respect to coverage or cost-sharing, relative to any opioid.
Introduced
09/12/2024Plan Impact
Medicaid/State EmployeeVoices Letters
A4682 Voices Support Letter
A4682 Voices Letter to Majority Leader Verrelli
A4682 Voices Letter to AW Donlon
A4682 Voices Letter to Speaker Coughlin
A4682 Voices Letter to Majority Whip Murphy
Custom Other Materials List
A4682 Wayne Alliance Letter to Speaker Coughlin
A4682 Wayne Alliance Letter to AW Donlon
A4682 Wayne Alliance Letter to Majority Leader Verrelli
A4682 Wayne Alliance Letter to Majority Whip Murphy
A4682 NCAAR Letter to Majority Leader Verrelli
A4682 NCAAR Letter to AW Donlon
A4682 NCAAR Letter to Speaker Coughlin
A4682 NCAAR Letter to Majority Whip Murphy
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://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f1051d23738c4980a08002bf301f7d8a
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