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Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care

KFF Health News

per 100,000 residents in 2021 more than double the rate in 2019, according to North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services data. Terica Carter, founder of Hajee House Harm Reduction, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that co-organized the event with the county’s public health office, has been working to change that statistic.