This roadmap provides local and state health departments with information, resources and tools to implement effective strategies to support linking people who are at risk of opioid overdose to care.
OVERDOSE RESPONSE AND LINKAGE TO CARE: A Roadmap for Health DepartmentsPublic Health
Despite increased focus on mental health and substance use challenges in the public health sector, there remains a lack of formal training for building professional competencies across public health agencies.
Additional education and training must be tailored to, and based on, the experiences and activities of the existing workforce. We provide dynamic programming to build public health’s capacity for addressing mental health and substance use challenges.
Events
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Voices From the Field: Centering Lived and Living Experience in Overdose PreventionJul 29, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The complex and ever-evolving drug overdose epidemic has increased the need for comprehensive, evidence-based prevention strategies and prompted local and state health departments to increase their efforts to better serve communities impacted by drug use and overdose. Many health departments are seeking ways to involve more people with lived and…
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Transformative Strategies for Person-centered Care: Bridging Tobacco-related Disparities for Justice-involved IndividualsJul 30, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Masterclass on addressing tobacco-related disparities that exist in carceral settings, concentrated among systematically marginalized groups.
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What Now: Xylazine in the Age of Opioid Use DisorderAug 27, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
As the opioid use crisis continues to progress, communities across the country are now being faced with additional dangers such as the misuse of xylazine, a powerful sedative commonly used for animals, in the drug supply. Recent studies indicate this potent substance, when used with opioids, increases overdose risk and…
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