In Rural Areas Without Pain Or Addiction Specialists, Family Doctors Fill In The Gaps
By Bram Sable-Smith Dr. Angela Gatzke-Plamann didn’t fully grasp her community’s opioid crisis until one desperate patient called on a Friday afternoon in 2016. “He was in complete crisis because he was admitting to me that he had lost control of his use of opioids,” recalls Gatzke-Plamann. The patient had used opioids for several years for…