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Beginning in 2017, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) initiated a hub and spoke treatment model to expand access to care for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD).\u00a0 UNC served as the hub and provided care for patients with high-acuity treatment needs and began making partnerships with community health centers, the spokes, who in turn were able to accept referrals from UNC for stabilized patients.\u00a0 In March 2020, this hub and spoke model expanded in partnership with the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), sponsored by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), such that MAHEC became a 2nd<\/sup> hub and began offering specific OUD\/SUD training to the spokes.\u00a0 In 2022, NC Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) partnered with UNC to further expand this effort statewide.\u00a0 This model was then named the NC STAR Network and East Carolina University (ECU) joined the network as an additional hub.<\/p>\nLearn More<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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