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An increase in drug overdose deaths is prompting new legislation to target people who sell fentanyl and other opioids.

North Carolina saw record highs in opioid overdose hospitalizations and deaths in 2022.

Prosecutors said Poteat worked as a contract nurse at a Winston-Salem hospital from July to November 2020 and had access to a machine that stored vials of injectable hydromorphone, an opioid derived from morphine.

This is North Carolina Survivor's Union. It's a place where people with substance use disorder can come for help. The strategy here is all about harm reduction. It meets people where they are and its strategies aim to decrease the negative consequences of recreational drug use without requiring abstinence.