‘I hope it’s not a slush fund’: Communities struggle to spend opioid settlement funds

‘I hope it’s not a slush fund’: Communities struggle to spend opioid settlement funds

Alisha Ladyga poses in her Huntington, Indiana, home. (Photo courtesy WTHR)Alisha Ladyga was 16 when she first tried and became addicted to OxyContin in the early 2000s, years before the opioid crisis swept the nation. During the peak of the epidemic in her hometown of Huntington, Indiana, she said nearly everyone she knew was using drugs. “People were overdosing left and right,” Ladyga said. “Most of the people that I had grew up with have eith…