Protecting the right to healthcare for North Carolinians with substance use disorder
DRNC works to protect the right to healthcare and other supportive services for North Carolinians with substance use disorder. Discrimination in healthcare against people with substance use disorder takes many forms:
- Being treated differently because of their past or present substance use disorder
- Denial of admission to a facility because they take medically assisted treatment for substance use disorder
- Refusing to treat you because of their substance use disorder
Fact sheet – Substance Use Disorders and Access to Healthcare Services
Disability rights laws have an important role to play in combatting this serious and growing public health crisis in North Carolina. These laws provide people with SUDs equal access to lifesaving medical, rehabilitation, and harm reduction services. View our Substance Use Disorders and Access to Healthcare fact sheet, which explains the legal rights people with SUD have to protect themselves against discrimination in healthcare settings.
Printable resources
When you have an Opioid Use or Substance Use Disorder (SUD), it can be hard to find the help that you need. DRNC has developed a statewide list of community services and resources for people with Opioid Use Disorder and/or Substance Use Disorder to make it easier to find help.
Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) is asking for stories of people who use substances who have been treated differently by a healthcare facility/provider because of their past or current substance use. These stories can help us fight for appropriate healthcare for people who use substances.
Program staff
Sara Harrington joined Disability Rights NC in 2023 and leads DRNC’s Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Healthcare Project. Her work focuses on dismantling discriminatory healthcare practices that increase overdose risk by […]
Contact info
- Sara Harrington: sud@disabilityrightsnc.org / 919-371-6762
