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Posted 3/25/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Effective Harm Reduction Strategies for People Who Actively Use Opioids and/or Psychostimulants
Participants will learn evidenced-based harm reduction strategies to keep people who use opioids and psychostimulants alive with reduced disease burden. Presenters will discuss methods of engaging people who actively use opioids and/or psychostimulants, harm reduction interventions, overdose prevention and response, overamping prevention and response, and linkages to care.
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This presentation covered recovery housing and MOUD in the context of issues emerging in rural America resulting from the pandemic and its impact on the rates of SUD and drug overdose. Also, presenters discussed the impact of the pandemic on corrections and the actions of states in response to COVID as it affects those with SUD. Presenters gave an overview of how recovery housing in this context can be developed especially in rural areas.
Posted 6/2/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
We know from RCORP grantees, first responders, hospitals, people who use drugs, the media and other allies that many communities are seeing spikes in overdose (OD) events and deaths since the onset of COVID-19. Sometimes these deaths come at alarming levels because of stretched public health infrastructure and the time it takes to turn around data. The webinar took place on May 26, 2020.
Posted 5/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Corrections-Based Responses to the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from New York State’s Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program focuses on the efforts of NYS to implement an overdose education and naloxone distribution program that teaches all soon-to-be released people in state correctional facilities—as well as their families and corrections staff—about the risks of opioid use, trains them in the use of naloxone, and offers it to them free of charge at release.
Posted 4/24/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This webinar was hosted by the SAMHSA GAINS Center on January 14, 2020. The webinar slides and supplemental resources are now available.
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Independence Ballroom on Wednesday, March 5, 2020, at 2:30 PM
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Supreme Court Room on Wednesday, March 5, 2020, at 2:30 PM
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Monument Room on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at 4:15 PM
Posted 2/10/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
ONDCP released a new tool to assist rural community leaders in building an effective local response to the crisis of addiction, the Rural Community Action Guide: Building Stronger, Healthy Drug-Free Rural Communities. The Guide also has a companion supplement, a listing of promising practices, included.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Opioid overdose continues to be a major health problem. This toolkit will provide information on disorder facts, steps for First Responders, information for Prescribers, safety advice, and recovering from opioid overdose.