The Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council is set to have its first meeting at 1:30pm Wednesday afternoon at the Walter Sillers building in Jackson.
State law requires the members to the meeting by the end of the day Wednesday. A virtual meeting link is available for anyone who cannot attend in person.
The group is responsible for advising the state Legislature on how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars Mississippi is receiving from pharmaceutical companies accused of catalyzing thousands of overdose deaths throughout the state…