• 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

Tag: NC Sheriffs’ Association

shows a rack of rifles. They're part of the debate over red flag laws.
Posted inPublic Health

A Bill to Yank Guns Before Violence

by Editor May 23, 2018September 19, 2022
Posted inPrison Health

Reducing mental illness in jails with evidence

by Taylor Knopf May 7, 2017October 4, 2022
Shows dosens of people crowded into the room behind the podium.
Posted inPrison Health

NC Chief Justice Makes Push to Raise the Age of Kids in Adult Court

by Taylor Knopf May 2, 2017October 4, 2022
handcuffs against a black background, which many county sherrifs departments use for transporting psychiatric patients
Posted inMental Health

Mentally Ill Could Be Charged With “Hate Crime” Under Proposed Bill – UPDATE

by Taylor Knopf April 27, 2017October 8, 2022
photo shows the madison county courthouse, an old brick building with tall white columns and a gazebo on top
Posted inRural Health

Opioids to Heroin to Hepatitis C in Western NC

by Taylor Knopf April 20, 2017April 19, 2017
Posted inPrison Health

New Push to End Treatment of Teen Offenders as Adults

by Taylor Knopf March 9, 2017October 10, 2022

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

Emailing your doctor? You may get billed for that.

Emailing your doctor? You may get billed for that.

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023
Health providers sometimes ignore mental health patients’ documented wishes during treatment

Health providers sometimes ignore mental health patients’ documented wishes during treatment

February 7, 2023February 6, 2023
Providers say legislature’s proposed ‘transgender’ bills will hurt LBGTQ youth, disrupt care

Providers say legislature’s proposed ‘transgender’ bills will hurt LBGTQ youth, disrupt care

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

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