Buncombe County commissioners have been holding town hall meetings in recent months r egarding opioids . Those gatherings have touched on several topics, but have had one common goal – educating people on how powerful the painkillers are and how easy it is to become addicted to them. Dr. Red Hoffman is a trauma surgeon at the Mountain Area Health Education Center, better known as MAHEC . She also focuses on hospice and palliative care in her work, so Hoffman administers and prescribes opioids