Tim Buck is extremely familiar with the number of individuals that passed away due to drug overdoses in his county in North Carolina the previous year: 10. Last year, it had reached a record high of 12 losses, which greatly impacted the tight-knit rural community of 12,000 people in Pamlico County, located at the eastern coast of the state. For the past 10 years, North Carolina has recorded the most opioid overdose fatalities out of the entire state. This was also featured on CNN. You can freely distribute it again. Tell your story. Are you worried about how the money from the opioid settlement is being used by your state or local government? Doing they something efficient that can be copied by other areas? Please provide us with information here.. As Buck, the county manager and a long-time inhabitant notes, the majority of people are familiar with, or have a connection to, someone who is acquainted with the people living in that region; he himself boasts that four of his ancestry have always lived there.
