BOONE — The Mediation & Restorative Justice Center was awarded funding to support and expand their treatment resources to provide further recovery and restorative justice services to the High Country.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services granted nearly $16 million to 20 health care centers, treatment clinics and community-based providers across the state to expand treatment services, employment, housing and transportation. This funding is part of a multi-state opioid settlement with McKinsey & Company, resolving investigations into the company’s alleged role in advising opioid companies on how to promote their drugs and profit from the opioid epidemic.
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