Substance Awareness Programming

Services Offered

Treatment Navigation

The HCHD helps people find the services they need navigating the various options regarding substance use disorder, such as detox, outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, and recovery support services. Learn more about this program here.

Peer Support

Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, the HCHD helps people become and stay engaged in the recovery process and reduce the likelihood of relapse.

Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)

This program offers a wellness and recovery approach to help people decrease and prevent troubling feelings and behavior, increase personal development, improve quality of life, and achieve ones life goals and dreams.

Post-Overdose Support

Overdose follow up program which visits someone who has recently overdosed for example within 24 to 72 hours as a follow up visit in order to direct people to treatment services for those seeking to stop their substance use. Discussion of overdose prevention training and overdose materials such as narcan are distributed.

Education

The HCHD provides community-based education on topics such as substance use prevention, overdose prevention, naloxone administration, and more.

Naloxone Distribution

HCHD offers free naloxone—an opioid antagonist—to individuals at risk of opioid overdose, as well as their friends and family. Includes training on how to rapidly reverse the effects of an overdose and restore normal respiration. Learn more about this program here.

Syringe Services

This harm reduction program provides safer drug use supplies, naloxone, and safe disposal options to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C and to reduce the occurrence of overdose. Staff also assist participants in accessing medical, mental health, and social services. Learn more about this program here.

NC Opioid Settlement

To address the nationwide opioid crisis and hold top pharmaceutical distributors and manufacturers accountable, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general established the landmark $26 billion National Opioid Settlement in July 2021. North Carolina opted into this historic agreement to obtain essential funding for its local communities. Distributed directly to municipalities and counties over an 18-year period, these dedicated proceeds will fund evidence-based efforts spanning opioid prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction.

This historic settlement offers a transformative opportunity to tackle the systemic consequences of substance use and foster long-term community resilience. By focusing on Recovery Support Services—including peer support and treatment navigation—Hyde County can improve access to vital care and provide meaningful support to individuals and families affected by substance use.

For more information on the Opioid Settlement, please visit https://ncopioidsettlement.org/.