2025 Mississippi Opioid Summit Agenda

Time	Topic and Speakers
8:00 a.m.	Doors open for Registration and Vender booths open
9:00 a.m	Welcome and Opening Remarks Joey Flowers, Chief Strategy Officer, ARCare Derick Ziegler, VP/Chief Transformation Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care Lynn Fitch, Attorney General, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics
9:30 a.m	Treatment of Complex Addictions and Complex Trauma Mike Eiden, Eiden Integrative Counseling
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Breakout Session I The Power of Peer Support: Maximizing Lived Experience in Substance Use Services Donald McDonald, Technical Expert Lead, JBS International From Stigma to Support- Family Medicine’s Role in Substance Use Treatment Dr. Brock Eaton, DO, ARCare Opioids: From Doctors’ Offices to Drug Dealers — A brief history of drug diversion and the beginning of the opioid epidemic. Robert Whitten, Lieutenant and Clay McCombs, Training Coordinator Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics
11:45 a.m.	Break
12:00 p.m.	Lunch with Keynote Speaker: Prioritizing Prevention to Address the Fierce Urgencies of Now Carlton Hall, MHS, President, CEO, Carlton Hall Consulting
1:00 p.m.	Q&A with Keynote Speaker
1:15 p.m.	Breakout Session II Pharmacists’ Roles in the Cascading Addiction Care Dr. Jeffrey Bratberg PharmD, FAPhA, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy Reducing Stigma and Focusing on Patient-Centered Approaches to Care Dr. Ronald Only, DO, ARcare Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Street Drugs — A look at the drugs that are killing Americans and how to keep yourself safe. Robert Whitten, Lieutenant and Clay McCombs, Training Coordinator Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics
2:15 p.m.	Break
2:25 p.m.	Q&A Panel: Baptist Center of Excellence in Addiction Medicine, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, MississippiCare
2:55 p.m.	Key Takeaways and Next Steps Sierra Butler, Manager, Baptist Center of Excellence in Addiction Medicine
3:00 p.m.	Adjourn

This event is hosted by the Baptist Memorial Health Care Center of Excellence in Addiction Medicine and MississippiCare.