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Posted 4/14/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Researchers evaluate The Kentucky Access to Recovery Program (KATR), which provides services to individuals recovering from opioid use in several counties in Eastern Kentucky, and conclude KATR demonstrates a potentially effective strategy for increasing health-related social services in rural areas.
Posted 8/24/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
AgriSafe is a national non profit that offers occupational health and safety training for rural health professionals. Currently AgriSafe in partnership with Mississippi State University Extension and University of Mississippi Medical Center are offering Continuing Health Professional Education through four webinars listed below. One hour of continuing education is available for each webinar.
This continuing education opportunity is free to licensed health care providers in the state of Mississippi. For health care providers outside of Mississippi, the continuing education is available for $40 per CE hour.
Posted 4/29/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Generations United's National Center on Grandfamilies works to enact policies and promote programs to help grandfamilies address challenges.
Posted 2/4/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
How States are Responding to the Opioid Crisis: An Overview Webinar Presentation and Materials
Posted 8/25/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Created by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), the Psychology
Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT) is an interstate compact that facilitates the practice of
psychology using telecommunications technologies (telepsychology) and/or
temporary in-person, face-to-face psychological practice.
Posted 1/20/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
People who use drugs (PWUD) in the U.S. experience disproportionate adverse health outcomes and mortality as compared with the population as a whole (Lake & Kennedy, 2016; Reisinger, Pratt, Shoenborn, & Druss, 2017). Similar health outcomes have been reported elsewhere, for example in the UK (Neale, 2004), and across 8 other European countries (Bargagli et al., 2006). In the U.S. health outcomes among PWUD are intensified by the overdose pandemic, epidemic rates of HIV, hepatitis A and C, skin and soft tissue infections (CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020; Hagen, Thiede, & Des Jarlais, 2005; Scholl, Seth, Kariisa, Wilson, & Baldwin, 2019), and by structural barriers thwarting health access and utilization.