Tackling Hepatitis C Hand in Hand with Communities

“For years of my life, I’ve let myself be defined by the words of others. Addict, junkie, criminal. With all those labels, it’s so much harder to go get tested for hepatitis C and add one more notch to that.” Those are the powerful words of Cat, a harm reduction advocate from North Carolina—one of five states I visited earlier this year in greater Appalachia—where the opioid epidemic is taking an enormous toll on individuals, families and communities. Sadly, t