A Genius Among Us
Nabarun Dasgupta, a senior scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and expert on fatal drug overdoses, was awarded a so-called “genius grant.”
Next Dealer Up
As a federal judge anguishes about drug deaths on the state’s college campuses, UNC-Chapel Hill struggles with what comes next.
A New Era In the War on Drugs
North Carolina is getting $1.4 billion to fight the opioid epidemic, but there’s much debate over how to spend it.


