Trainings and Resources

This handbook is for anyone looking for help or information, and for people who care about them, who may be: Misusing prescription pain medications, using narcotics, heroin, or other opioid drugs; thinking about seeking help for an opioid problem; or Considering medications that help with recovery from opioid use disorder.

This guide was created for harm reduction medical staff and volunteers as a resource about the types of wounds common with injection drug use and also to increase knowledge about treatment modalities for this population. Skin and soft-tissue infections are the most common cause of hospitalization among people who inject drugs.

The JBS RCORP-TA team have collated a number of resources to assist grantees during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Currently, these resources are collected in an Excel spreadsheet for grantees to download resources of their choosing. In the coming weeks, each resource will be included in the RCORP-TA Resource Portal as an individual resource.