Tim Buck knows by heart how many people died from drug overdoses in his North Carolina county last year: 10. The year before it was 12 an all-time high. Those losses reverberate deeply in rural Pamlico County, a tightknit community of 12,000 on the state’s eastern shore. Over the past decade, it’s had the
A General Assembly-backed initiative to prevent opioid overdoses, provide linkages to care and stem the spread of communicable diseases through the us.