• 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
  • 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
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • 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
  • Contact
  • Health Job Listings
  • Newsletter
  • 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 Coronavirus Coverage Here

Tag: drug abuse

Two people chat together in recovery peer support.
Posted inSubstance Use

Fighting addiction with jobs: WNC initiative combines work-readiness with mental health support

by Liora Engel-Smith May 14, 2021May 18, 2021

By Liora Engel-Smith Philip Cooper has always been outspoken. So when the Asheville resident chose to ditch cocaine there was only one way he could see to do it: He had to recover out loud.  It was a practice the 36 year old honed in 2009 when he was doing time for drug trafficking and […]

illustration shows birds emerging from someone's head, as a symbol for mental health issues, COVID
Posted inChronic Disease

Report: 20 percent of COVID-19 patients develop mental health issues

by Daily Yonder November 22, 2020April 12, 2021
A pregnant woman with a mask sits in her room.
Posted inGender health

Disrupting the cycle of addiction, one mother at a time

by Liora Engel-Smith October 26, 2020January 27, 2021
man in mask opening door
Posted inSubstance Use

How addiction recovery specialists adapted during COVID-19 pandemic

by Taylor Knopf May 20, 2020January 29, 2021
Shows an old photo of a woman hugging a little boy, they're both smiling.
Posted inChildren's Health

Does North Carolina do enough to help children affected by a mom’s prenatal alcohol use?

by Anne Blythe October 30, 2019October 30, 2019
Young man loads a medical needle from a bottle with a clear substance
Posted inChronic Disease

Switzerland fights heroin with heroin

by Taylor Knopf January 28, 2019November 13, 2019

Posts navigation

1 2 3 4 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

Fuquay-Varina couple carry blood stem cells across the U.S.

Fuquay-Varina couple carry blood stem cells across the U.S.

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022
House speaker adds another Medicaid expansion plan to the mix

House speaker adds another Medicaid expansion plan to the mix

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022
NC pediatricians gear up for giving COVID-19 shots to infants, toddlers

NC pediatricians gear up for giving COVID-19 shots to infants, toddlers

June 22, 2022June 21, 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2022 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic