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Buncombe County police take down an opioid trafficking ring in nursing homes

October 26, 2017 North State Journal Staff

ASHEVILLE — Nineteen health care workers have been charged in Buncombe County with a total of 61 felonies, including trafficking $72,000 in opium or heroin. The arrests come after a six-month anti-opioid abuse project called […]

RTI International studying effects of supervised injection sites for drug users

August 11, 2017 Mollie Young

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (Reuters Health) — While policymakers continue to block supervised injection sites in the U.S., a anonymous nonprofit secretly opened an unlicensed five-booth facility in an undisclosed location where visitors shoot up heroin […]