144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 6:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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George Carey, a retired bishop who previously led the Church of England, exhorted British Parliament this week to consider expanding access to assisted suicide.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 7:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Nevada may become a safe haven for doctors who perform gender transition surgeries on minors, per proposed legislation. It would also extend protections to doctors charged with violating minor gender modification bans in other states.
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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Neurologists are reporting that the majority of teenagers who began experiencing strange tics after watching TikTok videos during the pandemic are recovering.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 6:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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Researchers have examined the troubling trend of teens self-diagnosing mental illness through social media.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 1:20 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Give people hope
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 10:43 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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HB755, also known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights, isn’t the most egregious legislation to ever pass our General Assembly. That crown will forever belong to HB2, the so-called bathroom bill.
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 1:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Despite decades of research attempting to add additional genders, scientists have finally admitted there are still only two genders plus a growing list of 767 mental disorders.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 10:55 am
By: Babylon Bee
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President Joe Biden made a brief statement, Tuesday morning, addressing the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, and pledging to press forward with gun “reform” measures
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 12:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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The COVID-19 crisis has brought death, economic destruction, and wrenching social change.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 8:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The forgotten American is the blue-collar taxpayer who attends church on Sundays. He toils diligently so that he can put bread on the table for his family and children, but he lives paycheck-to-paycheck on a tight budget.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 2:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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We must also work together to create a culture in our country that embraces the dignity of life, that creates deep and meaningful human connections, and that turns classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2018 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Michael Kerr, starving, incoherent, and dehydrated, was loaded into a van March 12, 2014, at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville. The 53-year-old inmate was bound for a hospital at Central Prison in Raleigh
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 9:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina leaders address a multitude of problems behind the state's prison walls, a new national poll shows growing support for criminal justice reform
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services encourages adding healthy and smart lifestyle choices to New Year's resolutions for the coming year
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2017 @ 7:00 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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During a televised debate Thursday night, the four Democrats seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Richard Burr discussed immigration, health care, the economy, keeping firearms out of the hands of people with mental health issues, and their thoughts about the incumbent.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2016 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Department of Justice should butt out of North Carolina's mental health problems, since it is partially responsible for getting us into the situation we now face.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has received a $679,000 grant award to expand a specialty mental health probation pilot program to Brunswick, McDowell, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange and Durham counties. The grant comes from the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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Hospital volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, but rarely do we expect a member of the team to have four legs and a tail. Vidant Medical Center has offered animal-assisted therapy for many years as a treatment intervention for patients with varying diagnoses.
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 5:26 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Last week, a young man from eastern North Carolina named Keith Vidal became the latest victim in a long series of preventable tragedies caused by untreated severe mental illness.
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A Boiling Springs Lake father says his son was murdered by police this afternoon. Mark Wilsey called police when his 18-year-old, 90 lb. son had a screwdriver that he would not let go...his son, Keith Vidal, had schizophrenia and was having an episode Sunday afternoon...
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 6:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the Crisis Solutions Initiative, a new state effort aimed at addressing the failures of Gov. Easley's 2001 mental health reforms.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Almost unheard of before 1966, mass shootings like the Newtown massacre have become more and more frequent in modern American life.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Governor McCrory outlined a framework for Medicaid reform to improve care, customer service and results for North Carolina's young and elderly, disabled, mentally ill and low-income families.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 8:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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