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In rural America, deadly costs of opioids outweigh the dollars tagged to address them
by Kaiser Health News December 13, 2022 Find the Full Article here: Cost of opioids outweigh money to address them - NC Health News (northcarolinahealthnews.org) For North Carolina counties, the rates of opioid deaths were calculated by dividing the sum of opioid deaths from 2010 to 2020 by the sum of the annual population estimates from 2010 to 2020. By Aneri Pattani and Rae Ellen Bichell Kaiser Health News Tim Buck knows by heart how many people died from drug overdoses in his North...
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State awards $325,000 grant to Bladenboro for community enhancements
Story by WECT Staff B LADENBORO, N.C. (WECT) - Bladenboro received a $325,000 grant as part of $19.7 million in American Rescue Plan funding awarded to rural projects in North Carolina. Governor Roy Cooper announced the funding in a press release on Wednesday, Dec. 14. “More support for North Carolina’s rural communities is on the way with these transformative grants, made possible by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan,” said Cooper. “These funds, backed up by the expertise of our rural...