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Tag: NC Harm Reduction Coalition

A black vending machine full of free naloxone kits in a white box
Posted inPrison Health

Vending machines dispensing free, life-saving medication

by Rachel Crumpler November 9, 2022November 15, 2022

By Rachel Crumpler Amanda Clark knows the word is getting out that there’s a way to stop an overdose using a medication available at the Forsyth County jail. That’s because of a story told to Clark, who leads the Forsyth Regional Opioid & Substance Use Team, by someone from the county emergency medical services.  In […]

Posted inPrescription Drugs

Counterfeit pills have become more prevalent in the street drug supply

by Taylor Knopf September 6, 2022February 5, 2023
Posted inSubstance Use

NC experts explain how safe smoking kits reduce harm from drug use

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven February 23, 2022August 31, 2022
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
Boxes of Narcan are visible
Posted inSubstance Use

Decreasing opioid deaths, not with abstinence, but harm reduction

by Elizabeth Thompson December 10, 2021August 31, 2022
a map from the CDC showing the percent change in deaths from overdoses nationwide over the last year
Posted inSubstance Use

A nationwide problem, worse in North Carolina

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven December 2, 2021December 1, 2021

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