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JANUARY 29, 2020

Family Doctors in Rural America Tackle Crisis of Addiction and Pain

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Angela Gatzke-Plamann, MD, is the only full-time physician in Necedah, Wisconsin, and the only physician in the state's Juneau County who has had the required training to prescribe the addiction medicine buprenorphine. (COBURN DUKEHART/WISCONSIN WATCH)

This article has been reprinted from Kaiser Health News, and was reported in association with Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Public Radio and NPR.

Angela Gatzke-Plamann, MD, didn’t fully grasp her community’s opioid crisis until one