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The Healing Place of New Hanover County opened earlier this year, but they held their grand opening ceremony on Thursday, and gave some insight on the progress.
Years of work by New Hanover County to deliver the “very best evidence-based treatment program” culminated in the recent opening of The Healing Place. Now, the facility says it is recovery housing, not a treatment center, despite advertising itself as the latter (and despite New Hanover County and others referring to its services as treatment). Officials call the distinction ‘semantics,’ but it could mean the difference in millions of dollars in opioid settlement funding and the health outcomes of hundreds, even thousands, of people seeking help for addiction.
WILMINGTON — Every morning at 615 Shipyard Blvd., roughly 350 people line up at Coastal Horizons Center to wait for medication. There are more than 600 clients…