The church and the opioid crisis: 'The stigma is still there, but more and more people are seeing it as a disease that needs treatment, instead of a moral failure'

Charlie Counselman and Tequan Powell carry signs for the GC Stop needle exchange program that they posted outside College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, NC on Sept. 4, 2019. (H. Scott Hoffmann/News & Record)

An unspoken sermon of sorts is playing out here, just inside a side entrance to College Park Baptist Church. It isn't based on a Bible verse, and a choir is nowhere to be seen.

Some might think it's for the addicts who use the entrance to get the clean needles offered inside by the Guilford County Solution to The Opioid Problem program. It's not.

It's about what happens when the faith community partners in battling the burgeoning opioid crisis. And it's meant for the faith community.

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