Addiction recovery groups and advocates push for Narcan expansion in Mississippi wlbt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wlbt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mississippi is part of a $350 million national settlement with Publicis Health over the advertising agency’s role in the prescription opioid crisis. According to Attorney General Lynn Fitch, Mississippi is set to receive $2.9 million of the settlement’s funds after Publicis allegedly contributed to the crisis by helping Purdue Pharma.
Mississippi sees a decrease in drug overdose deaths wlbt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wlbt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In an effort to prevent overdose deaths, the University of Southern Mississippi will be installing emergency kits containing Narcan in residence halls across its Hattiesburg campus. Narcan, also known by its clinical name Naloxone, is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. Southern Miss is the first Mississippi college or.