From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis

Wendy Welch is the author or editor of six books and the executive director of the Graduate Medical Education Consortium of Southwest Virginia where she advocates for social justice and policy planning in equal measure. She lives in Wytheville, Virginia.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lauren Sisler
Preface
Wendy Welch, Ph.D., MPH
5,000 Year Ghazal (Molly ­O'Dell, MD, MFA, and Wendy Welch, Ph.D., MPH)
Six Minutes (Theresa Ann Poling, FNP)
Perspectives from a Prescriber (Manju Pushkas, MD)
Injecting Hope with Sublocade (Daleen Berry)
Rockabye (Rondalyn Varney Whitney, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA
This Is Your Body on Drugs (Tauna Gulley, Ph.D., ­FNP-BC)
Hoofbeats of the Zebra (Susan M. Hamrick, AASRT, RT, ARDMS, RVT, RDCS)
The Seeker and the Provider (Brandon Whited, LPN)
City of Solutions (Lyn M. ­O'Connell, Ph.D.; Jodi Maiolo, MPH, and Stephen Petrany, MD)
A Clinician's Guide to Changing Your Mind (Issaiah Wallace, MSN, ­PMHNP-BC)
Why Addiction Care Is Primary Care (Melissa L. Zook, MD, FAAFP, FASAM, AAHIVS)
Community Is the Vehicle to Recovery (Tanner Clements, M.Div., and Andrea D. Clements, Ph.D.)
Mountain Doc (Willie Dalton, BS)
How We Got Here and How We Can Get Out of Here (Randall E. Jessee, Ph.D.)
The Bad Deborah Gold, in Conversation with Misty
Who Will Leave Harlan Alive? (Mary Jewell Allen, DO)
White Coat Man… Marcus Oglesby, Creek Don't Rise Band
Data Make You Credible, but Stories Make You Memorable (Michael Meit, MA, MPH)
About the Contributors
Index