2022 Rural Opioid Misuse Immersion Schedule
March 25–26, 2022, with optional overnight activities and breakfast on March 27
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Program Overview
This historical schedule records Northern West Virginia AHEC’s Rural Opioid Misuse immersion in Weston, Buckhannon, and Roanoke, West Virginia.
This accessible web edition preserves the schedule’s program information, while the matching PDF preserves the original print presentation. Outdated staff contact details are not republished on this page. For current program information, contact Northern WV AHEC.
Pre-Immersion Activities
Participants were asked to complete all five activities before March 25:
- Read American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, by John Temple.
- View Nadine Burke Harris’s TED Talk about adverse childhood experiences.
- View an introduction to Cabin Creek Health’s medication-assisted treatment program.
- Complete the SPENT online exercise.
- Read Hampton, C.; Buckley, J.; Auld, M. E.; and Drewiske, K. (2019), A Nation in Crisis: A Health Education Approach to Preventing Opioid Addiction.
Optional Videos and Documentaries
- The Oxycontin Express
- Heroin(e)
- Recovery Boys
- Oxyana
- Dopesick television miniseries
- The Opioid Epidemic in Kermit, WV
Additional Optional Resources
- My Mother Wasn’t Trash, from This Appalachian Life
- Opportunity House
- Dowell, D.; Haegerich, T. M.; and Chou, R. (2016), CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – United States, 2016.
- Life Reclamation, a WVU Magazine article about deep-brain stimulation to treat addiction
- The Deepest Well, by Nadine Burke Harris
- The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis and the Solution They Don’t Want You to Have, by Barbara Andraka-Christou
- Dopesick, by Beth Macy
- High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict’s Double Life, by Tiffany Jenkins
- If You Love Me: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Daughter’s Opioid Addiction, by Maureen Cavanagh
- The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, by Sam Quinones
Day One – Friday, March 25
| Time | Topic or activity | Location | Presenter or host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | Mon Health Recovery Care Program | Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, trailer in parking lot, 230 Hospital Plaza, Weston, WV 26452 | Bruce Gorby, DO, FASAM |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break and relocation for afternoon sessions | The Coffeehouse, 402 Main Avenue, Weston, WV 26452 | — |
| 11:30 a.m. | Children in foster care and the opioid crisis | The Coffeehouse | Brittany Sponaugle, MSW, LGSW, KVC West Virginia |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch, provided by South Texas Barbecue Company | The Coffeehouse | — |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch presentation: a pharmacist’s perspective | The Coffeehouse | Sarah Miller, PharmD |
| 2:00 p.m. | Opioid-use paraphernalia | The Coffeehouse | Mountain Lakes Drug and Violent Crime Unit |
| 3:00 p.m. | Coffee break | The Coffeehouse | — |
| 3:15 p.m. | American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic | The Coffeehouse | John Temple, MFA, WVU College of Media |
| 5:00 p.m. | Check-in | Stonewall Resort, 940 Resort Drive, Roanoke, WV 26447 | — |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner | Stillwaters Restaurant, Stonewall Resort | — |
Day Two – Saturday, March 26
| Time | Topic or activity | Location | Presenter or host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast | Stillwaters Restaurant | — |
| 10:00 a.m. | Discussion with the recovery community | The Recovery Center, 47 Cleveland Avenue, Buckhannon, WV | Matthew Kerner, Executive Director, Opportunity House |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch and debrief | To be determined in the original schedule | Amanda White, MPH, CHES, Executive Director, Northern WV AHEC |
| 2:00 p.m. | Adjourn | — | — |
| 6:00 p.m. | Optional dinner for overnight participants | Stillwaters Restaurant | — |
| After dinner | Optional overnight lodging | Stonewall Resort | — |
Day Three – Sunday, March 27
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast for participants staying overnight | Stillwaters Restaurant |