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Dr. Michael Tift, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has recently returned from his second Antarctic winter researching the effects of climate change on the most populous seal species on earth, the crabeater. Tift and his colleagues are able to do this research through a $690,446 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
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According to U.S. government health experts, medications like Suboxone are more effective than other treatments in reducing illicit opioid use and overdose deaths. But not everyone is on board with prescribing these medications — including New Hanover County’s new drug treatment facility, The Healing Place.
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In 2021, more Americans than ever have been dying from opioid overdoses – and those increased rates are showing up in the Cape Fear Region, too. But local medical providers and organizations are trying to reverse that trend.