The controversial drugs are not yet approved, but advocates hope a NC law would allow the state to be ready, should the FDA approve them.

The state likely won’t fully meet new Medicaid funding demands, indicating cuts to Medicaid services could follow, lawmakers ...

North Carolina's first lady, Anna Stein, is spearheading a new initiative, Unshame North Carolina, to dismantle the stigma surrounding substance abuse disorder and promote treatment for opioid ...

Richardson contributed to the new NC Black Youth Suicide Prevention Action Plan. In the plan, Guilford and Forsyth are among ...

"What this resolution does is put more of that administrative burden on the states and the counties," NCDHHS says.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and First Lady Anna Stein, in collaboration with Shatterproof, has ...