Jeanette Wolfberg in The Columbia Paper reports that the Columbia County Board of Supervisors Health and Human Services Committee heard from Dr. Anna-Maria Assevero, an internist at Columbia Memorial Hospital, about the opiod crisis at its May 16 meeting. She said, “We need a drop-in center” for people struggling with opioid use problems. She said some of the problem is the system. Assevero said that, “the insurance companies are calling the shots. We’re now data entry clerks, essentially. Doctors get the highest score if they have the most compliant patients, according to what they put into the computer.” The Columbia County Board of Supervisors Health and Human Services Committee meets next June 20, at 4 p.m. at 401 State Street in Hudson. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.