The shooting death of a rural doctor is sparking a call for new solutions to the old problem of prescription drug abuse in eastern Kentucky.

Dozens of people showed up Monday night in Hazard for the first in a series of community meetings scheduled to address the area's drug problem in the wake of the death of Dennis Sandlin.

Police say he was shot in his Perry County Clinic last month by a patient who was denied pain pills.

Karen Engle, Executive Director of the Anti-Drug Task Force Operation Unite, says the shooting should be a wake-up call for the region.