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

Strings attached to new state funds for addiction treatment in jails

by Taylor Knopf May 10, 2022May 9, 2022

By Taylor Knopf State lawmakers are making $2 million available to North Carolina sheriffs to start or expand opioid addiction treatment programs in their jails, but the money comes with a big caveat.  The $2 million grant program included in the state budget late last year specifies that the funds can be used to provide […]

shows a brick building of Central Prison behind a chain link fence topped by razor wire
Posted inPrison Health

Sex offender registry makes reentry a balancing act of restrictions without resources

by Elizabeth Thompson April 13, 2022April 15, 2022
image shows the corner of a building behind a fence with loops of barbed wire on top
Posted inPrison Health

Report: 2020 saw a record number of deaths in NC jails

by Elizabeth Thompson March 25, 2022March 24, 2022
shows three vials: the left hand one (heroin) is about half full, the other two (carfentanil and fentanyl) have scant traces of a crystal in them
Posted inSubstance Use

Fentanyl is everywhere, increasing overdoses in the South

by Taylor Knopf January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
Boxes of Narcan are visible
Posted inSubstance Use

Decreasing opioid deaths, not with abstinence, but harm reduction

by Elizabeth Thompson December 10, 2021December 9, 2021
A wrapped strip of suboxone is on a counter.
Posted inSubstance Use

As overdose deaths rise, structural barriers to better treatment remain

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

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