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About Project Lazarus
Project Lazarus believes that communities are ultimately responsible for their own health and that every drug overdose is preventable. We are a secular, non-profit organization that provides technical assistance to community groups and clinicians throughout North Carolina and beyond. Using experience, data, and compassion we empower communities and individuals to prevent drug overdoses and meet the needs of those living with chronic pain.
Project Lazarus is the secular public health component of a non-profit organization that was established in 2006 in response to extremely high unintentional drug poisoning death (“overdose”) rates in Wilkes County (four times higher than the state’s). Using experience, data, and compassion Project Lazarus empowers communities and individuals to prevent drug overdoses and meet the needs of those living with chronic pain community. Project Lazarus enables overdose prevention by providing technical assistance to create and maintain community coalitions; we help harness existing public health data and empower community groups to create locally tailored drug overdose prevention programs by connecting them to state and national resources.
