Funding Cuts to Drug Treatment Centers Mean Addicts Get Turned Away

Published August 25, 2013

Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
The average length of stay in North Carolina for mental health and substance abuse patients in emergency rooms is 16 hours, up 68 percent from 2010 to 2012, according to the N.C. Hospital Association. Until hospital staff can find a drug treatment … Read more on News & Observer

Drug center operators face bribery charges
ASHEVILLE — A federal complaint alleges operators of a drug and alcohol treatment center took bribes from Western North Carolina parolees in exchange for letting them to submit substitute urine samples. The conspiracy allowed criminals to use illegal … Read more on Asheville Citizen-Times

NC expanding rules for erasing criminal records
“Because we live in an electronic age, more today than ever before, it's become a scarlet letter that you can't escape,” said Bowes, an attorney for the N.C. Justice Center. “The vast majority of employers and landlords are running criminal background … Read more on Charlotte Observer