A newstudy, published last month in an open-access version of the Journal of the American Medical Association, classified 412 counties as “high-risk” and 1,485 as “not high-risk.” Among those, 41 of North Carolina’s 100 counties qualified as “opioid high-risk” counties.
A recent article in North Carolina Health news explores the impact on North Carolina residents as well as North Carolina specific information and can be found here:
As part of NCATOD’s mission, we are dedicated to the promotion of effective treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and access to MAT through clinic based services. You can find a listing of opioid treatment programs in North Carolina here:
This is just one of the many voicemails we receive every week from a concerned family or friend of an individual who continues to struggle with a severe opioid use disorder.
“I have a daughter who is addicted to heroin. She overdosed yesterday, died and EMS had to bring her back. She is begging for help to get detoxed and into rehab. I don’t know if your facility accepts this but she doesn’t have any form of insurance. She is technically homeless. If there’s anyway you can help us. Please give us a call back.”
A Kentucky couple realized that restaurants have an unusual power to help addicted people recover, and created DV8 Kitchen to hire, train and encourage them… Click HERE for the story.
Check out this great video that explains Medication-Assisted Treatment to families, friends, and non-MAT professionals from our friends at Pew Charitable Trusts.
