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

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. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch for NPR hide caption

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

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

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

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VIDEO: What If Aging Wasn't Inevitable? The Quest To Slow And Even Reverse Aging

Scientists have developed promising clock-turning treatments for mice. Could pills that mimic the benefits of exercise help humans? In this Future You: the effort to stop the symptoms of growing old.

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