Mobile opioid treatment unit brings care to Burlington residents
A mobile clinic has been stopping at Burlington’s health department, putting methadone, buprenorphine and Suboxone within reach of patients who cannot make the trip to Greensboro.
A mobile opioid treatment unit has been parking outside the Alamance County Health Department in Burlington, bringing medication for opioid use disorder within about 10 minutes of home for at least one patient who could not make the daily trip to Greensboro. Preston Evans, who oversees the Greensboro program, said the bus has given that young woman a way to start care without losing treatment to transportation problems.
The stop is at 319 N. Graham-Hopedale Road in Burlington, where the unit has been taking patients Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The mobile unit offers daily dosing, intake opportunities, crisis counseling and telehealth services, and dispenses methadone, buprenorphine and Suboxone.
New Season’s mobile program began operating in November 2025 as a licensed extension of its Greensboro clinic, and the Greensboro-based unit became operational on Nov. 13, 2025. The Burlington stop began in January 2026. It is one of only three mobile opioid treatment programs now operating in North Carolina, with six more expected after certification. The model became possible after a 2021 Drug Enforcement Administration rule allowed methadone-authorized registrants to add a mobile component to existing registration.
The 2024 Community Health Assessment puts overdose deaths as the third leading cause of death in Alamance County, up from sixth, driven largely by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Alamance County recorded 55 opioid-overdose deaths in 2022, a rate of 32.4 deaths per 100,000 residents, and expects about $16,638,635 in opioid settlement money from 2022 through 2038. AC HOPE, the county’s coordinated response to opioid misuse and other substances, began after a December 2017 leadership forum on opioid abuse.
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