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How addiction recovery specialists adapted during COVID-19 pandemic

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How addiction recovery specialists adapted during COVID-19 pandemic - North Carolina Health News

While some addiction service providers have been forced to cut programs, others have adjusted to the pandemic changes to assist people using drugs and those in early addiction recovery.

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. […]

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Docs Look to Make Prescribing Opioid Treatment Rx Easier

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Docs Look to Make Prescribing Opioid Treatment Rx Easier - North Carolina Health News

Even as the number of people overdosing on opioids is rising, the number of physicians able to prescribe the best treatment is limited.

By Taylor Knopf Despite the escalating problem of opioid abuse and overdoses across North Carolina, there is only one “preferred” addiction treatment under the state Medicaid program. If a provider would like to treat a Medicaid patient with a treatment other than Suboxone® SL Film, they must go through extra steps that could take as […]

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A New Meth Surge Gathers Momentum

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A New Meth Surge Gathers Momentum - North Carolina Health News

Even as health and law enforcement officials struggle to cope with rises in opioid use and deaths, deaths related to methamphetamine are creeping up in many parts of the country.

By Christine Vestal Stateline The opioid epidemic has killed tens of thousands over the last two years and driven major reforms in state and local law enforcement and public health policies for people with addiction. But another deadly but popular drug, methamphetamine, also has been surging in many parts of the country. And federal officials […]

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