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Cooper releases roadmap for $1 billion in behavioral health, resilience investments
Summary by Ground News
Gov. Roy Cooper released a comprehensive plan to invest $1 billion in addressing North Carolina's mental health and substance use crisis. Anxiety and depression rates have almost quadrupled, overdose deaths have jumped 72 percent and youth suicide rates have doubled. The plan outlines three areas for investment in the continuum of behavioral health care: making behavioral health services more available when and where people need them.