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Tag: addiction medicine

A series of doors in the housing unit inside the Buncombe County Detention Facility
Posted inPrison Health

Opioid use disorder treatment in jails making strides in North Carolina

by Rachel Crumpler September 27, 2022September 28, 2022

By Rachel Crumpler Elijah Bazemore believes there needs to be a paradigm shift in the way detention facilities — jails and prisons — are managed. “What we’re doing is putting a person back into the community the same way they came in — broken and torn up,” said Bazemore, who recently retired as a major […]

image shows the corner of a building behind a fence with loops of barbed wire on top
Posted inPrison Health

Momentum building for MAT in jails across N.C.

by Rachel Crumpler September 15, 2022September 17, 2022
four prescription drug bottles in a row
Posted inSubstance Use

Tension builds around best ways to spend NC’s opioid settlement money

by Taylor Knopf April 7, 2022April 7, 2022
a sign for the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Asheville
Posted inHealthcare Workers

NC will soon have its first addiction psychiatry training program

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven March 15, 2022August 30, 2022
Posted inSubstance Use

Targeting the opioid crisis, NC lawmakers give $10M to new church ministry

by Taylor Knopf December 6, 2021March 14, 2022
Providers stand around a bed in a training about opioid use disorder at MAHEC in Asheville last year.
Posted inRural Health

Initiative aims to connect patients to addiction treatment by building better networks

by Liora Engel-Smith April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

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