The Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council is meeting Monday in Jackson with the goal of helping state lawmakers move closer in spending tens of millions of dollars to prevent deadly overdoses.

This spring, lawmakers established this council to make recommendations on how Mississippi should spend most of its money from national lawsuits related to their roles in the opioid epidemic, a crisis that has claimed over 10,000 Mississippi lives since 2000. The council, overseen by Attorney General Lynn Fitch, is set to oversee around $300 million of Mississippi’s expected $421 million of settlement money over the next 15 years.

The meeting is set to take place at the Carroll Gartin Justice Building at 1 p.m., and a livestream can be accessed through this link.

The full council las

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