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The Opioid and Fentanyl Crisis: What is Happening in WNC?

  • Leadership Asheville Forum UNCA Reuter Center Manheimer Room USA (map)

NOTE: Registration is not required to attend this program. Please join us!

Leadership Asheville Forum (LAF) presents “The Opioid and Fentanyl Crisis: What Is Going on in WNC?” an evening forum and panel conversation at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNC Asheville on August 9th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Manheimer Room of the Reuter Center.  This forum is free and open to the public.            

  • Sheriff Quentin Miller, Sheriff of Buncombe County

  • Dr. Shuchin Shukla, Physician at Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center, owner of Shukla Health Consulting LLC.

  • Sarah Gayton, Community Integration and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Services Director at the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

  • Claire Hubbard, R.N., Paramedic and Manager of the Community Paramedicine Program of Buncombe County. 

Questions and answers from the audience will follow the presentations and discussion by the panel.  

Please visit our website, leadershipashevilleforum.com for information about membership and future forums.  

Nancy Waldrop, chair of Leadership Asheville Forum

Artie Miller and Joe McGuire, co-chairs of this forum 

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