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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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144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 8:40 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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People combatting opioid use disorder in Western North Carolina are gaining expanded access to lifesaving outpatient services.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ivermectin saving lives
Published: Saturday, September 18th, 2021 @ 9:46 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is expanding services at the Walter B. Jones Center to include outpatient opioid treatment for residents of eastern North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 3:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the House Bill 325, the Opioid Epidemic Response Act, to help increase access to medication assisted treatment and expand harm reduction measures to reduce opioid overdose deaths across the state.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In a roundtable discussion with Governor Roy Cooper and Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, parents shared the pain of losing children to the opioid epidemic and urged lawmakers to expand Medicaid to provide access to treatment.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 11:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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FIGHTING THE OPIOID CRISIS: President Donald J. Trump’s effort to combat the opioid crisis is making progress and he remains committed to ensuring we end this crisis next door.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 9:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The funds will be used for prevention, access to treatment and improved linkages to care.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 @ 10:56 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A Year of Historic Action to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 1:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Across North Carolina, 5,717 individuals--nearly four times the first-year goal--have benefited since May 2017 from a federal grant aimed at helping battle an opioid crisis that is killing nearly four people a day in this state, Governor Roy Cooper reported today
Published: Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 @ 9:53 am
By: Governor's Office
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She arrived as an unpaid intern at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, and now East Carolina University junior nursing student Aleigha Criego is having a hard time leaving.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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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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People in eastern North Carolina who are living with depression now have a new, non-invasive, non-drug treatment available.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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