Updates

Jessie Greenblatt calls her hometown of Hendersonville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, “a very quaint little town.” But, oh, how she’s seen it suffer. A woman Greenblatt went to high school with hosts a Facebook page that serves as a memorial...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. While the year-to-date...

Buprenorphine is an effective yet underused treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Researchers set out with this objective – to evaluate the feasibility (acceptability, tolerability, and safety) of 7-day injectable extended-release buprenorphine in patients with...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on ED visits for overdose reports. While the year-to-date data show decreases in...

Illicit drug use among American teens has held fairly steady around the lower levels reached in 2021, amid the school and societal disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Estimates from the most recent iteration of the annual Monitoring the Future survey also...