The Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council is set to finalize how it recommends spending tens of millions of state dollars Tuesday at 2 p.m. CT inside the Carroll Gartin Justice Building in Jackson.
The meeting can be viewed virtually at this link by entering the password “Council2.”
The council, formed earlier this year by state lawmakers, is tasked with overseeing most of the money won from companies that contributed to Mississippi’s opioid epidemic — a public health crisis that’s led to over 10,000 deadly overdoses since 2000. State officials have been receiving tens of millions of settlement dollars since 2022 but haven’t spent the money on anything other than attorneys’ fees yet…