Mississippians struggling with addiction have one less option for treatment after Congress cut funding for a University of Mississippi Medical Center project shuttered this summer, according to a spokesperson for the medical center.

The Mississippi Horizons Project used telehealth to treat patients with gold-standard medicine for opioid addiction like buprenorphine, according to a website that UMMC has since taken down. Started in 2022 when Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith sent $6 million of congressionally directed spending to the medical center, the program focused on connecting uninsured Mississippians to the medications.

The program also offered addiction psychotherapy, financial assistance for prescriptions and in-patient treatment, medical transportation and peer support services,

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