• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Author Archives: Melba Newsome

Melba Newsome is an award-winning freelance writer with more than 20 years' experience reporting on news and features. Her feature credits in many prominent publications including the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Oprah, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Time, Good Housekeeping and Wired. Melba also is a frequent contributor to such online sites as NBCNews and Healthline.

Thanks to a Crisis Reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, she will be reporting extensively on the physiological, emotional, and societal impact of the novel coronavirus for NC Health News.

the front of a hospital as the sun is setting. It's the hospital that treats Americna Indian overdoses for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee
Posted inSubstance Use

Native Americans look for ways to stop soaring overdose deaths

by Melba Newsome February 9, 2022August 31, 2022

By Melba Newsome In September 2018, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) made it onto a list they probably would have preferred to avoid. The Office of National Drug Control Policy identified the Qualla Boundary, the Eastern Band’s 56,000-acre homeland just south of Smoky Mountains National Park, as one of 10 “high intensity drug […]

Two bottles of single dose naloxone
Posted inSubstance Use

Contradictory state laws aimed at stopping drug overdoses aren’t applied equally

by Melba Newsome January 6, 2022August 31, 2022
shows three men standing outside a mobile van, talking.
Posted inSubstance Use

Treatment for opioid use disorder – not separate but still unequal

by Melba Newsome December 17, 2021December 21, 2021
Shows satellite view of land holding three large hog farm complexes with waste lagoons adjacent to the hog houses.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Decades of legal battles over pollution by industrial hog farms haven’t changed much for eastern NC residents burdened by environmental racism

by Melba Newsome October 29, 2021October 29, 2021
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Unchecked growth of industrial animal farms spurs long fight for environmental justice in Eastern NC

by Melba Newsome October 20, 2021August 31, 2022
A wrapped strip of suboxone is on a counter.
Posted inSubstance Use

Expanding medication-assisted therapy training for health care professionals

by Melba Newsome June 14, 2021August 31, 2022

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 6 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

Two laws provide greater accommodations for pregnant and nursing workers

Two laws provide greater accommodations for pregnant and nursing workers

January 30, 2023January 29, 2023
Experts make the urgent case: ‘Child care is a public good’

Experts make the urgent case: ‘Child care is a public good’

January 27, 2023January 26, 2023
Schools struggle to retain special ed teachers. Advocates say invest more in them.

Schools struggle to retain special ed teachers. Advocates say invest more in them.

January 26, 2023January 25, 2023

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2023 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic