BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Health announced a new campaign aiming to lower fatality rates for pregnant women and young moms. 

Project M.O.M., which stands for Maternal Overdose Mortality, brings awareness to accidental opioid overdose, which is the leading cause of death in pregnant women in Louisiana and has been since 2018. 

Part of the project's goal is to reduce accidental opioid overdose deaths of pregnant women by 80% within the next three years by increasing education, substance use screening and accessibility to life-saving medications such as Naloxone. 

You can find out more about Project M.O.M. at its website here. 

Also in Thursday's health report: Pennington's Greaux Healthy campaign, colorectal cancer awareness, THC edibles and smoking, wiping out diseases and how women with a coffee habit may live longer.