|
Today I officially filed for re-election, seeking to continue my service to the citizens of Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 @ 11:31 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
|
Like many communities across our nation, Beaufort County has felt the harmful impacts of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs that have resulted in numerous overdoses and unfortunately, overdose deaths.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 8:54 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
|
This week the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit executed three (3) search warrants in the Chocowinity and Aurora areas and assisted the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office with a search warrant in Pitt County.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 @ 5:17 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
|
“Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking into the United States.”
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 @ 7:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Addiction is not just a physical issue, it is also deeply spiritual
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2024 @ 10:10 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
|
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Senate Democrats this week as impeachment proceedings for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have begun in Congress’ upper chamber.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 12:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Request being made to add Xylazine to the list of controlled substances in NC
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @ 6:39 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
"It’s very literally not hurting you."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 5:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Authorities found 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped, fentanyl-laced pills.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Oregon recently decriminalized hard drug use.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 7:48 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
"The unchecked drug dealing is plainly the root of our current problems."
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 6:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
The homeless population jumped 11% this year.
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 1:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
"Maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future."
Published: Saturday, September 9th, 2023 @ 1:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
Portland is notorious for open-air drug dealing.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 6:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
"It's San Francisco, bro."
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
"Consumer shopping habits continue to change."
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 11:10 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
The city is breaking records for fatal overdoses.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|