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Harm Reduction in the COVID Era: Helping Patients Who Use Drugs Stay Safer During the Pandemic
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Join the MWAETC as we explore the impact of COVID-19 on harm reduction services, issues encountered on the ground, and potential solutions.
During this session we will:
Understand the guiding principles behind harm reduction as an approach to public health and individual treatment for people who use drugs (PWUD).
Appreciate the unique risks of harm to PWUD brought about by the intersection of COVID-19 and the overdose epidemic.
Explore specific clinical strategies for medical providers to help their patients who use drugs reduce risks of harm, including low-threshold treatment, overdose education and naloxone distribution, safer drug use counseling.
Join the MWAETC as we explore the impact of COVID-19 on harm reduction services, issues encountered on the ground, and potential solutions.
During this session we will:
Understand the guiding principles behind harm reduction as an approach to public health and individual treatment for people who use drugs (PWUD).
Appreciate the unique risks of harm to PWUD brought about by the intersection of COVID-19 and the overdose epidemic.
Explore specific clinical strategies for medical providers to help their patients who use drugs reduce risks of harm, including low-threshold treatment, overdose education and naloxone distribution, safer drug use counseling.
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