Pastors say to address the opioid crisis, expand Medicaid

Rebekah Paulson talks to Sen. Paul Lowe following a press conference where she told the story of her own recovery from addiction and how she helped her church start a needle exchange. Photo credit: Taylor Knopf

The NC Council of Churches and others lobbied in Raleigh for Medicaid expansion as a way to get more people with substance use disorder into treatment.

Rebekah Paulson found God in jail. As a former heroin user with a criminal record, she faced a lot of barriers when she got out.

She wanted to attend church but discovered that many in the pews around her didn’t understand what she had been through. She eventually found Source Church in Dare County, where she said the pastors and members understood her story.

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