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2 weeks ago | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban |Rachel Crumpler |Taylor Knopf |Grace Vitaglione
When federal health officials announced late last month what top officials called a “dramatic restructuring” of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the department’s secretary, claimed: “Over time, bureaucracies like HHS become wasteful and inefficient even when most of their staff are dedicated and competent civil servants.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
indyweek.com | Taylor Knopf
This story originally published online at NC Health News. A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. It’s called a peer-run respite house; it’s the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban |Jaymie Baxley |Will Atwater |Jennifer Fernandez |Grace Vitaglione |Rachel Crumpler | +3 more
When we last gave our predictions of the issues we’d be following in the coming year, I wrote that North Carolina had yet to see the “true impact” of what was perhaps the state’s biggest health story of 2023: the decade-in-the-making passage of Medicaid expansion.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban |Will Atwater |Jaymie Baxley |Anne Blythe |Michelle Crouch |Charlotte Ledger | +3 more
When the NC Health News team took a stab at the start of the year at predicting what health-related issues would guide our coverage throughout 2024, there was no question that politics and the campaigns for president, governor and other state offices would play a large role. And they did. But we had no idea about the devastation that Hurricane Helene would bring to western North Carolina and all the news the catastrophic storm would generate the last quarter of this year.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Taylor Knopf
A new kind of mental health service is available in Wake County, and it offers a voluntary alternative to hospitalization for people experiencing mental distress. It’s called a peer-run respite house; it’s the first of its kind in the Triangle area and only the third to open in North Carolina.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Taylor Knopf
Just as substance use experts celebrated a somewhat mysterious drop in drug overdose deaths across North Carolina, Hurricane Helene blew through the western part of the state, causing death and widespread property damage. In the storm’s aftermath, many residents found themselves without homes and businesses and facing an uncertain future. For harm reductionists like Hill Brown, the southern director of Faith in Harm Reduction, Helene’s impact raised serious concerns.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Taylor Knopf
After weathering the storm at home in the town of Marion, A.C. was without power and water and decided to make the 30 mile-trip to Asheville to get supplies. A.C. is the manager of a local restaurant and also wanted to check on her business and make sure her employees were okay.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thecharlottepost.com | Taylor Knopf
BLAKE WHEELER | UNSPLASH
Queen City Harm Reduction helps people who use drugs find stable housing, a market they are frequently denied entry.
A nonprofit in Charlotte is helping people who use drugs find stable housing, creating a pathway to stability for a population that is frequently barred from traditional rental markets.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
qcitymetro.com | Taylor Knopf
A nonprofit in Charlotte is helping people who use drugs find stable housing, creating a pathway to stability for a population that is frequently barred from traditional rental markets. Queen City Harm Reduction secured a grant over a year ago to help house its participants — people who come to their center in northwest Charlotte and to their mobile services for safe drug use supplies and services — and the results have been promising.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Taylor Knopf
A nonprofit in Charlotte is helping people who use drugs find stable housing, creating a pathway to stability for a population that is frequently barred from traditional rental markets. Queen City Harm Reduction secured a grant over a year ago to help house its participants — people who come to their center in northwest Charlotte and to their mobile services for safe drug use supplies and services — and the results have been promising.
