In Rural Areas Without Pain Or Addiction Specialists, Family Doctors Fill In The Gaps

December 30, 2019
Dr. Angela Gatzke-Plamann is the only full time physician in Necedah, Wis., and the only physician in Juneau County, Wis., who has the required training to prescribe the addiction medicine buprenorphine.

In rural America, chronic pain and opioid addiction are common, but treatment is often harder to come by. In the village of Necedah, population 916, one doctor is changing that.

(Image credit: Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch for NPR)



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