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Posted 4/5/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network has developed an Alcohol Awareness Toolkit to use during Alcohol Awareness Month. The Alcohol Awareness Toolkit will help you raise awareness about alcohol-related harms and the importance of strong alcohol policies. It also encourages engagement from prevention and public health stakeholders to strategically educate and inform decision-makers about effective alcohol policies by providing easy-to-personalize, templated opinion editorials, letters to legislators, and proclamations.
Posted 4/11/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
This webinar will help set a foundation for what trauma-informed care (TIC) means and why it is important.
Posted 4/14/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The next National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is on April 22, 2023. If you have unused or expired prescription medications, you can locate a safe and convenient disposal drop off location using the U.S Drug Enforcement Association's (DEA) website. The DEA aims to help the public remove unneeded medications from their homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting.
Posted 5/30/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Overdose Detection Mapping and Application Program (ODMAP) is a free, web-based, overdose reporting platform. It is for local, state, federal, and tribal public safety and public health entities working in overdose response, reduction, and prevention.
Posted 7/14/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has compiled a Harm Reduction Framework document that will inform the agency's activities, policies, programs, and practices. The framework document includes SAMHSA's six pillars of harm reduction as well as supporting principles and core practice areas.
Posted 7/21/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
Disparities in access to naloxone exist and organizations are working to remove some of these barriers by utilizing innovative methods such as vending machines to distribute the overdose medication. This provides life-saving medication in an accessible way to everyone, although laws vary state to state on the distribution of these tools. More information on naloxone vending machines can be found in these resources by the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) and The Network for Public Health Law.
RSV 2023 Session: Quick Response Teams: Preventing Deaths While Sharing the Hope of Recovery (Day 1)
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
The presentation discussed the development and changes in the utilization of a Quick Response Team in an Ohio rural community.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
RSV 2023: 9:00 - 10:45 a.m. Welcome and Keynote Address (Day 1)
Posted 7/28/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
The toolkit Stimulant Safety: Getting Amped Up to Reduce Harms When Using Stimulants was developed through the CDC-funded National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center in collaboration with the NASTAD Drug User Health team and consultants. This resource provides education on the reasons people take stimulants, how to minimize harm, reduce stigma around stimulants, support peoples' positive experiences, the intersection of stimulant use and sexual safety, and much more.
Posted 7/31/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
At the end of July 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second over-the-counter naloxone nasal spray product, RiVive. The agency who received the approval to manufacture the product, Harm Reduction Therapeutics, does not yet have a timeline of availability and decision on pricing.