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How addiction recovery specialists adapted during COVID-19 pandemic

by Taylor Knopf May 20, 2020January 29, 2021

By Taylor Knopf In his 20 years at Healing Transitions, Chris Budnick has never turned away someone seeking help. But in late March after three false-positive tests for COVID-19 at the residential addiction recovery program in Raleigh, the program director made the tough call to stop all new admissions to the campuses and overnight detox. […]

A person in a sports cap holding a needle box to be packed away and delivered to needle exchange participants. Dunlap says they meth use never went away in Haywood County.
Posted inRural Health

Even as opioids ravage WNC, mountain folks say meth never went away

by Liora Engel-Smith December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

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