Deep South Today

Introducing Deep South Today's new narrative podcast featuring special investigations from newsrooms serving our communities. In its first series – Black Box – Mississippi Today mental health reporter Allen Siegler follows the path of Mississippi's opioid settlement money. After decades of opioid overdoses that ravaged the country, the state of Mississippi is being awarded hundreds of millions of dollars by the very companies that contributed to one of the country's worst modern public health epidemics. Now, critical questions loom over the cash: Will this money be used in ways that honors the epidemic's victims? And can the public trust powerful decision-makers across Mississippi to effectively confront the crisis?