Request being made to add Xylazine to the list of controlled substances in NC
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @ 6:39 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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North Carolina's senators say broken border policies are to blame for driving drug cartels to engulf the country with drugs.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 9:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Raleigh, NC – Today, North Carolina Speaker Tim Moore announced appointments to the House Select Committee on Substance Abuse, including Committee Chair Rep. Stephen Ross and Vice Chair Rep. Erin Paré.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 12:30 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Today, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Congressman Don Davis (NC-01) and the FRA joined forces to reintroduce the bipartisan Veteran Heroin Overdose Prevention Act
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 6:54 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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"It’s very literally not hurting you."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 5:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Authorities found 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped, fentanyl-laced pills.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, on World Mental Health Day, the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services is celebrating an unprecedented $835 million investment in behavioral health.
Published: Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 @ 4:41 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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New York City hit a grim milestone last year, logging a record number of drug overdose deaths.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 12:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Oregon recently decriminalized hard drug use.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 7:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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The 2024 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Threat Assessment highlighted numerous aspects of the failed policies from President Joe Biden and his administration.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 8:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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"The unchecked drug dealing is plainly the root of our current problems."
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 6:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A San Francisco shop owner has died after being brutally attacked by a robber who beat him into a coma.
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 8:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper declared today Overdose Awareness Day in North Carolina. Overdose Awareness Day is about remembering those whose lives have been lost to overdose, honoring family and community grief, and renewing our commitment to ending the overdose crisis in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 1:32 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The homeless population jumped 11% this year.
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 1:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Brandi Keehnle is living her life. The human services technology student traded her role as a stay-at-home grandmother for a college student after seeing a great deal of need for counseling and support for people with substance use issues.
Published: Saturday, September 9th, 2023 @ 1:50 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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"Maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future."
Published: Saturday, September 9th, 2023 @ 1:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Portland is notorious for open-air drug dealing.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 6:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Thursday, Aug. 3, from 6 to 7 p.m. to discuss substance use, overdose prevention and how we can support teens and young adults in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 2:04 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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U.S. Senate lawmakers on Tuesday added legislation targeting transnational criminal organizations trafficking fentanyl into American communities to their version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 10:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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Come for Morning Wire’s Afternoon Update’s straight news, but stay for the rapid reaction analysis.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"It's San Francisco, bro."
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"Consumer shopping habits continue to change."
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 11:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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The city is breaking records for fatal overdoses.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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America is in freefall. Cities are crumbling, with open drug abuse and homeless everywhere, overdose deaths are soaring, there’s a mental health epidemic, and then there are the crises, oh the crises: the border, the federal debt, lack of affordable housing, flat-out unaffordable health care.
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 1:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has written to officials in China requesting Beijing’s help in stemming the flow of fentanyl into Mexico.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 3:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first over-the-counter Narcan nasal spray to reduce drug overdose deaths driven by illicit opioids amid an ongoing epidemic largely fueled by the southern border crisis.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 2:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said Monday that authorities seized fentanyl mixed with a pharmaceutical drug used to sedate animals in 48 states, warning the American public of a widespread threat.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 9:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled his plan Wednesday that will put $1 billion into addressing North Carolina’s mental health and substance use crisis.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Overdose deaths in North Carolina have increased by 72% since 2019, with a 40% jump in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden laughed off an errant attempt Wednesday to blame him for the 2020 fentanyl overdose deaths of two Michigan brothers.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 10:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday he would detain Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if given the opportunity.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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NCDHHS Continues Fight Against Overdose Epidemic
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 3:18 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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In Tuesday night’s State of The Union speech, President Joe Biden focused his comments on a theme to “finish the job,” proposing new taxpayer-paid benefits, focusing on the more than 20,000 projects related to the infrastructure bill, and highlighting climate policy in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 11:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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