This collaboration may mark the beginning of a new era, where the two camps that had been seen as competitors in a zero-sum game for funding and legitimacy, can start to see each other as partners in offering many options to those seeking help for addiction.
The Child Fatality Task Force released its 2025 annual report this week, offering recommendations on how the governor and the General Assembly can create policies they say will save lives. The report offers 11 recommendations that address a range of issues that threaten child health and safety, including teens spending an average of 3.5 hours per day on social media.
A jarring supply of opioids is flooding North Carolina. Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Richmond, said if all of the opioid pills prescribed in the past 12 months were counted, “every man woman and child would have a bottle of 100 in their hand. This is an excessive amount of these very, very addictive chemicals that cause...
