Federal cuts hobble efforts to prevent overdoses from contaminated drugs

By: Taylor Sisk | KFF Health News

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: November 9, 2026

Words: 1,497

Last Updated: 13 hours, 2 minutes ago

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GREENVILLE, N.C. — When the federal funding ran dry, Diannee Carden Glenn’s options were few.

Carden Glenn is the director of ekiM for Change, a volunteer-run public health organization that works to prevent overdoses in Greenville and surrounding rural communities. For much of the past decade, she relied on funding from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to buy drug test strips, used to check for contaminants in the street-drug supply.

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