Addiction Medicine

Prioritizing Rural Health: Door County Community Health Needs Assessment

On Thursday, November 16, Door County Medical Center (DCMC) joined hospitals throughout the country to celebrate National Rural Health Day. Since 2010, the third Thursday of November has been dedicated to promoting the unique health care challenges in rural communities. This year, we are highlighting DCMC's collaboration with

Addiction Medicine

Addiction Affects Everyone: America’s Overdose Epidemic in 2023

In 2017, nearly 70% of the 70,237 documented overdose deaths in the United States involved an opioid—that's roughly 47,600 deaths from opioid overdose in one year. To put that number in perspective, that is slightly less than the 58,220 total service members who died