October 6, 2022 – mountainx.com

Local organizations update Buncombe on opioid response

November 11, 2022October 6, 2022 by Xpress Contributor

According to figures shared with the county Board of Commissioners by Dr. Shuchin Shukla, a physician and opioid crisis educator with the Mountain Area Health Education Center, Buncombe’s rate of overdose deaths has exceeded the statewide average since at least 2016. In 2021, the county suffered 45.2 deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with 35.8 deaths per 100,000 for North Carolina as a whole.

Poet Brit Washburn on literature’s highest purpose

October 6, 2022 by Thomas Calder

Poet Brit Washburn discusses the importance of specificity within poetry, forms of inspiration and the ways a poem can help readers feel less alone.

Recovery community seeks to stop more overdoses with naloxone

October 6, 2022 by Jessica Wakeman

On Sept. 13, Buncombe County Health & Human Services issued an alert on social media and to local groups like the Homeless Coalition about a spike in overdoses in the county. “Please be advised, over the last several days there has been a continued spike in probable overdoses in Buncombe County,” the email alert from … Read more

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