What To Do With Unused Medicine.
Today’s opioid epidemic is lurking inside our home medicine cabinets. That’s where family and friends can get access to the majority of
abused prescription drugs, especially opioids. Help us battle our state’s deadly crisis by cleaning out prescription drugs you no longer need. Simply drop them off at one of these convenient collection sites Saturday, April 28.
Drop Off Locations
Saturday, April 28th
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Winter Park Pharmacy Triangle Pharmacy McDowell Family Pharmacy |
Asheville Pharmacy Falls River Pharmacy
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Our Perspective
Warning Signs for Parents Concerned About Teenage Opioid Abuse
The opioid epidemic gripping North Carolina is not only affecting adults or users of street drugs or illegal narcotics. Prescription opioid medications are responsible for more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.[1] In 2017 alone, more than five North Carolinians...
On Opioids, North Carolina Is Making Progress
The opioid problem won’t be solved overnight. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make significant progress in the short term here in North Carolina. A research report called “The Opioid Epidemic in America: An Update” from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association...
Changes to our Opioid Policies
Every day, opioid addiction destroys lives and tears apart families in North Carolina. It is a public health emergency that Blue Cross NC is committed to addressing. We’re announcing three policy changes for opioid prescriptions and treatment for opioid dependency....
The opioid epidemic: How we’re turning talk into action
The opioid epidemic is one of the most talked-about and devastating problems we face every day in North Carolina. For the longest time, it seemed like there was a lot of talk and not a lot of action. Political and community leaders, law enforcement, and health care...
Everybody Hurts: 5 Things You Might Not Know About Pain
In the old days, life often began with an introduction to an unpleasant sensation called pain. A doctor would grab a newborn baby and give the child’s rear end a slap. When the child squealed in response, everyone would hear proof that the lungs were working just...
Believe It or Not, Abuse-Deterrent Opioids Aren’t the Answer
All of us are likely familiar with the seriousness of opioid abuse in the United States today. Since the turn of the century, more than 11,000 Americans have died every year from overdoses of prescription pain pills – and many more struggle with the destructiveness...
STOP is a Start: New NC Law Aims to Prevent Addiction, Deaths
A couple of months ago, I published a story about a former patient of mine who became addicted to prescription pain pills. It generated a healthy discussion on social media about addiction and potential solutions to the growing problem of opioid abuse in North...
“I’ve Been Lying to You”: A Physician Learns Her Patient Has a Drug Problem
After being a patient of mine for nearly a year, an elderly woman came into my office for a follow-up visit. She had been what we physicians would consider a “good patient”: never canceled appointments, never asked for early prescription refills, never claimed she’d...