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Oklahoma

State Facts

483

Deaths, or 56.9% of all overdose deaths in the year ending February 2025 involved opioids.¹

Over 968,000

Claims, or 5% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 69 per prescriber.²

52.9

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

$39.5 Billion

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

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$652,419,428.38
State Spending Recommendation

The Attorney General’s Office contracted with the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, a local nonprofit in Oklahoma, to develop a list of priority opioid abatement strategies featuring eight priority strategies, including medications for opioid use disorder, contingency management, and recovery housing, and also provides criteria for assessing the quality of proposed projects to assist in evaluation of grant applications. 

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.

2024 Passed Relevant Legislation

SB 1344

This bill requires Medicaid to treat non-opioid pain medications no less favorably than opioids, directs the state to pursue grants for non-opioid education and services, and allows use of opioid settlement funds to support related education efforts.

Effective date
11/01/2024
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2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation

HB 1416

Mandates that the state Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL) and utilization management policies must not disadvantage non-opioid pain medications compared to opioids. It also requires the state to pursue grant opportunities for education and services related to non-opioid medications. Additionally, the state may allocate opioid settlement funds to support educational initiatives promoting non-opioid alternatives.

Introduced
01/16/2025
Plan Impact
Medicaid
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Voices Letters

HB 1416 Voices + Shatterproof Letter of Support

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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://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