JUST OPEN IT AND GO IN –
July 24, 2026 – Holly Warren was recently leafing through one of her old medical school textbooks, trying to recall how much instruction she’d received in addiction medicine — trying to recall, “Did we even talk about this? Was it even on our radar?” “And it really just wasn’t,”
She received an excellent education two decades ago at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, then at Duke University for internal medicine. “But we just really didn’t talk about addiction medicine very much.”
Today, Warren knows quite a bit about it. She began providing medications for opioid use disorder, or MOUD, at a federally qualified health center in rural Greene County, North Carolina, and now serves as medical director of the health department in Lenoir County, likewise a rural county in eastern North Carolina, where her clinical focus is MOUD.
