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The director of the State Bureau of Investigation says his agency is focusing more resources on opioid trafficking.
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A federal court has issued an order prohibiting a North Carolina pharmacy and its two pharmacists from dispensing controlled substances without taking steps to help ensure the drugs will not be abused, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
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Mobile health clinic gives life-changing mental health and addiction services.
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About 85% of the funds will go to all 100 counties and 17 cities and towns. Local governments have flexibility on how they can spend that money.
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TROSA is a popular non-profit organization that has served people in substances abuse recovery since 1994.
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$11 million for North Carolina rehab with work requirements, medication restrictions raises concernsAs overdoses surge and opioid settlement dollars flow, funding to North Carolina rehab foreshadows national discussion about the best approaches to treatment.
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More than 70% of fatal overdoses in 2020 involved fentanyl, an illicit opioid.
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The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.
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This is North Carolina Survivor's Union. It's a place where people with substance use disorder can come for help. The strategy here is all about harm reduction. It meets people where they are and its strategies aim to decrease the negative consequences of recreational drug use without requiring abstinence.
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An increasing number of Americans are dying from drug overdose. Between April 2020 and April 2021 more than 100,000 people in the country died, a new ominous benchmark. One of the leading culprits is fentanyl, a synthetic opiate. On this episode of the Politics Podcast reporters Taylor Knopf from North Carolina Health News and WUNC's Jason deBruyn discuss the upward trend, and possible solutions.