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From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis

Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies

Memoirs of Grassy Creek: Growing Up in the Mountains on the VirginiaNorth Carolina Line. Zetta Barker Hamby. 1998

The Pond Mountain Chronicle: Self-Portrait of a Southern Appalachian Community. Edited by Leland R. Cooper and Mary Lee Cooper. 1998

Traditional Musicians of the Central Blue Ridge: Old Time, Early Country, Folk and Bluegrass Label Recording Artists, with Discographies. Marty McGee. 2000

W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman: Photographs of a Bygone Time. Ralph E. Lentz II. 2001

The People of the New River: Oral Histories from the Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga Counties of North Carolina. Edited by Leland R. Cooper and Mary Lee Cooper. 2001

John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author. Bill York. 2003

The Thistle and the Brier: Historical Links and Cultural Parallels Between Scotland and Appalachia. Richard Blaustein. 2003

Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia. The Cratis Williams Chronicles. Cratis D. Williams. Edited by David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver. 2003

Willard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist. Willard Gayheart and Donia S. Eley. 2003

The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina. J. Timothy Cole. 2003

The Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 19201966. Betty J. Reed. 2004

The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson. 2005

Community and Change in the North Carolina Mountains: Oral Histories and Proles of People from Western Watauga County. Compiled by Nannie Greene and Catherine Stokes Sheppard. 2006

Ashe County: A History; A New Edition. Arthur Lloyd Fletcher. 2009 [2006]

The New River Controversy; A New Edition. Thomas J. Schoenbaum. Epilogue by R. Seth Woodard. 2007

The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Rangers Memoir. Tim Pegram. 2007

James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature. Edited by Ted Olson and Kathy H. Olson. 2008

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty. John R. Burch, Jr. 2008

Asheville: A History. Nan K. Chase. 2007

Southern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets. Edited by Marita Garin. 2008

Ball, Bat and Bitumen: A History of Coaleld Baseball in the Appalachian South. L.M. Sutter. 2009

The Frontier Nursing Service: Americas First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School. Marie Bartlett. 2009

James Still in Interviews, Oral Histories and Memoirs. Edited by Ted Olson. 2009

The Millstone Quarries of Powell County, Kentucky. Charles D. Hockensmith. 2009

The Bibliography of Appalachia: More Than 4,700 Books, Articles, Monographs and Dissertations, Topically Arranged and Indexed. Compiled by John R. Burch, Jr. 2009

Appalachian Childrens Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Roberta Teague Herrin and Sheila Quinn Oliver. 2010

Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition. Edited by Saundra Gerrell Kelley. 2010

Southern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity. Christopher Dorsey. 2011

George Scarbrough, Appalachian Poet: A Biographical and Literary Study with Unpublished Writings. Randy Mackin. 2011

The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia: Illustrated Histories, 1770 2010. Franklin F. Webb and Ricky L. Cox. 2012

School Segregation in Western North Carolina: A History, 1860s 1970s. Betty Jamerson Reed. 2011

The Ravenscroft School in Asheville: A History of the Institution and Its People and Buildings . Dale Wayne Slusser. 2014

The Ore Knob Mine Murders: The Crimes, the Investigation and the Trials . Rose M. Haynes. 2013

New Art of Willard Gayheart . Willard Gayheart and Donia S. Eley. 2014

Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field. Edited by Wendy Welch. 2014

The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity . Todd Snyder. 2014

African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 19001965 . Phoebe Ann Pollitt. 2016

A Hospital for Ashe County: Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care . Janet C. Pittard. 2016

Dwight Diller: West Virginia Mountain Musician . Lewis M. Stern. 2016

The Brown Mountain Lights: History, Science and Human Nature Explain an Appalachian Mystery . Wade Edward Speer. 2017

Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 18621900 . Frans H. Doppen. 2016

The Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television . Vicki Sigmon Collins. 2017

The Trees of Ashe County, North Carolina . Doug Munroe. 2017

Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity . Tamara L. Stachowicz. 2018

Always Been a Rambler: G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Country Music Pioneers of Southern Appalachia . Josh Beckworth. 2018

Tommy Thompson: New-Timey String Band Musician. Lewis M. Stern. 2019

Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash: The Last Leaf on the Tree . Malcolm L. Smith with Edwin Lacy. 2020

Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community . Edited by Susan E. Keefe with assistance from the Junaluska Heritage Association. 2020

Boone Before Boone: The Archaeological Record of Northwestern North Carolina Through 1769 . Tom Whyte. 2020

From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis: Healthcare Providers Discuss Opioids, Meth and Recovery . Edited by Wendy Welch. 2020

The Highland Summer Conference: Reflections on 40+ Years of Creativity at Radford University . Edited by Donia S. Eley and Grace Toney Edwards. 2020

About the Graduate Medical Education Consortium

The Graduate Medical Education Consortium (GMEC) of Southwest Virginia provides educational support to medical residents and established physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, and nurse practitioners. Among other activities, the non-profit enables scholarly activity and cultural competency education and opportunities for those training in the region, collaborates with regional health systems and independent clinics on workforce development between rising and retiring providers, assists in substance abuse education for clinicians and the public, and offers continuing medical education conferences on multiple subjects. GMEC showcases programs and expertise relevant to the region, and supports those working from within to make Appalachia an even better place to live than it currently is. Proceeds from this book will support GMECs workforce education and development efforts.

From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis

Healthcare Providers Discuss Opioids, Meth and Recovery

Edited by Wendy Welch

Foreword by Lauren Sisler

Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies , 50

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Je f ferson, North Carolina

Also Edited by Wendy Welch and from McFarland

Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field (2014)

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Welch, Wendy, editor. | Sisler, Lauren, writer of foreword.

Title: From the front lines of the Appalachian addiction crisis : healthcare providers discuss opioids, meth and recovery / edited by Wendy Welch ; foreword by Lauren Sisler.

Description: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020 | Series: Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 50 | Includes bibliographical references and index.