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Illustration by Bethany Atkinson/Deep South TodaySheriffs receive 20% of Louisiana’s opioid settlement money but are not required to report how they spend those dollars. Records reveal how 43 offices are spending their share. -
A new podcast series from Deep South Today follows Mississippi Today reporter Allen Siegler’s coverage on Mississippi’s opioid settlement funds.
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The nonprofit health care organization’s two health centers in the state shut down in September due to what Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast called “relentless political assaults.” -
Planned Parenthood intends to open a clinic in New Orleans later this year and will expand telehealth services in the state starting later this summer.
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On this week’s episode, we take a look at how the parish with the most opioid overdoses in Louisiana is spending its opioid settlement money. -
Jefferson Parish is using opioid settlement money for a new drug court. Is it the best use of funds?The parish is poised to receive $65 million from the legal settlements fund. Some argue the money would be better spent on preventative programs and other initiatives. -
With guests Jan Moller, Invest in Louisiana executive director, and Kathy Kliebert, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. -
The Supreme Court says rules that allow patients to get the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail can stay the same for at least a week. -
Lawmakers adjusted funding amounts, added organizations that had not been vetted and gave themselves broader authority over how the money could be spent. -
Residents around Meta’s data center in Holly Ridge, Louisiana, say the air is brown and the water is rust-colored. The Gulf States Newsroom is starting a monitoring project to test the air quality. -
Louisiana residents may see changes in calling the state health department or using its website if it turns to artificial intelligence to save money. -
The Gulf States Newsroom traveled across Mississippi and collected 219 written responses from people with lived experience of addiction.
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Attorney General Liz Murrill has obtained an indictment for a California doctor who she alleges sent abortion pills to Louisiana in violation of state law. -
Tariffs, inflation, and other federal policies have battered U.S. farmers' bottom lines. Now many farmers say the expiration of federal health care subsidies will make their coverage unaffordable. -
The Baton Rouge OBGYN is also on the CDC vaccine advisory panel that voted to end recommending the Hepatitis B vaccine for all infants at birth. -
Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC. -
The Clinic NOLA will offer many of the same services as the now-shuttered Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. -
A letter from Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein to staff at LDH states that employees will be furloughed without pay for up to 240 hours between November 3 and December 2. -
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response. -
A new Commonwealth Fund report paints a stark picture of how Medicare is serving older adults and people with disabilities in the Gulf South. -
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit this week that calls on the federal government to strike down rules that allow the distribution of abortion drugs without an in-person doctor’s visit.
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Both the U.S. and the Netherlands wrestle with the politics of drug use, but their approaches diverge in key ways that reflect deeper ideological divides.
