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Tom Campbell: North Carolina needs mental health care reform

It’s not a subject we talk about openly but, with few exceptions, every family experiences the issue: 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 children under 17 in North Carolina suffer from mental illness. Half of them did not...

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Convention center project displaces behavioral health provider

A Surry County healthcare provider that has served adults with mental health and developmental disabilities from a downtown Mount Airy office for more than a decade found itself in the path of progress — and last week, county commissioners gave...

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Long Covid is still here. I know – my life came to a stop because of it

With more than 200 possible symptoms, long Covid isn’t easy to treat and diagnose. Rolled-back federal funding has led longhaulers to ask: is this all in my head?I am 30ft below the surface of the Blue Grotto, a crystalline diving hole in central Florida. Between the water’s embrace and the restrict