{"id":3453,"date":"2024-04-10T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctac\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=3453"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:07:46","slug":"lars-paul","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctac\/people\/lars-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Lars Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lars Paul<\/strong>\u00a0retired as a Captain from the Fayetteville NC Police Department in December 2020. During his 25 years of service in the department he held a variety of positions. He has a BA degree from Fayetteville State University and is a graduate of the 247th session of the FBI National Academy.\u00a0 He became involved in harm reduction in 2013 when, in partnership with NCHRC, he started the Department\u2019s naloxone program, which at the time was the only the second such program in the state. Having developed\u00a0a close relationship with NCHRC, the logical next step was to start a LEAD (law enforcement assisted diversion) program. Again, in partnership with NCHRC, Lars spearheaded the program which in 2016 was only the fourth of its kind in the nation. Lars continues to stay engaged in the harm reduction\u00a0community by teaching harm reduction classes to police departments in Eastern NC, as well as making himself available to agencies nationwide who need technical assistance in developing their own harm reduction\u00a0programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2998,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[4],"class_list":["post-3453","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-nchrc","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lars Paul - North Carolina Technical Assistance Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctac\/people\/lars-paul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lars Paul - North Carolina Technical Assistance Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lars Paul\u00a0retired as a Captain from the Fayetteville NC Police Department in December 2020. 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