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A copy of the 2025 draft request for grant applications from the Mississippi Opioid Settlement Advisory Council's first meeting. The council finalized that and other documents at an August 8, 2025 meeting in Jackson, Miss. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Mississippi opioid settlement council finalizes grant applications
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,08/11/25-11:32AM , 348 Reads 6,797 Statewide
Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council has finalized and expects to soon release grant applications for the tens of millions of dollars it oversees, moving the state closer to using its settlement money to address addiction.
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Special Assistant Attorney General Caleb Pracht, left, and Attorney General Lynn Fitch listen as committee members introduce themselves during the first meeting of the Mississippi Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee at the Walter Sillers Building in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Hackers derail Mississippi’s second opioid council meeting
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,07/30/25-9:38AM , 358 Reads 7,791 Statewide
A cybersecurity attack displaying explicit, racist and antisemitic images derailed Mississippi’s second meeting to begin the process of allocating the state’s opioid settlement dollars, further delaying the process of using the money to address addic
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Members of the Mississippi Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee discuss priorities during their first meeting at the Walter Sillers Building in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Years behind nearby states, Mississippi struggles to finalize opioid settlement distribution process
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,07/17/25-2:06PM , 360 Reads 6,752 Statewide
The committee tasked with overseeing most of Mississippi’s opioid settlement dollars may struggle to keep up with the tight timeline the Legislature prescribed last spring, a plan that lawmakers finalized years
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Opioid advisory council meets in Jackson
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,07/17/25-12:18PM , 204 Reads 4,556 Statewide
The Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council held its first meeting Wednesday at the Walter Sillers building in Jackson.
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