WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Eighth Annual Coastal Duck Derby to benefit Coastal Horizons is set to take place at Jungle Rapids on Friday, May 19.You can a .
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.