Angi Edwards-Matheson, the assistant clinical director of the Southwest Behavioral Health Center in Utah, faces a major problem in fighting the opioid epidemic afflicting the state’s rural counties: Her treatment center struggles to attract medical professionals.

“It’s hard to recruit people, therapists included, to rural areas,” Edwards-Matheson said. “They don’t want to relocate there. It’s hard to build a practice with very, very small numbers of qualified prescribers, and have it be a successful practice.”