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After Bella Grumet, a UNC Chapel Hill senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to become an advocate for…

After Bella Grumet, a UNC-CH senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to become an advocate for harm reduction strategies in hopes of preventing more drug-related deaths among college students.

After Bella Grumet, a UNC-CH senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to become an advocate for harm reduction strategies in hopes of preventing more drug-related deaths among college students.

The Carolina Harm Reduction Union at UNC and other groups around the Triangle work to educate others on how to use naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses.

Weronika Fafinska, 23, has told of how all her childhood memories were wiped out, including any recognition of her parents, after she had life-saving surgery to remove a brain tumour.