They sold their home to open a clinic in rural Vermont. Eight months later, the floods came
Just moments earlier, at roughly 2 a.m., he and his wife, Caroline, received a starting phone call from a friend who urged them to check on their small clinic, the Johnson Health Center. The clinic was just yards away from a river, where waters had begun to rise. By the time Geoff arrived, water was filling the parking lot and quickly creeping toward the clinic’s backdoor.
A 2022 study suggested increasing access to naloxone, in combination with other recovery initiatives, could have a “substantial impact on the overdose epidemic” in the country. The year before that study was published, Vermont saw the largest increase in overdose deaths of any US state, rising a staggering 85% between March 2020 and March 2021, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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