Washington, D.C.’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission was created to advise the city on how to spend millions of opioid settlement dollars. But next year, the city is shifting part of that recurring multimillion-dollar cost to a new funding source: opioid settlement dollars. Substituting opioid settlement dollars for general funding keeps overall spending on treatment flat instead of increasing. At the July 15 meeting of the Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, they speak against the city’s use of opioid settlement dollars to fill budget holes. Still, some residents like Adesuyi want more accountability for how the opioid money is spent.