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Virtual meeting

Via Zoom

Description

Harm Reduction covers the basics of harm reduction including harm reduction philosophy, harm reduction related to smoking, snorting, and injecting drugs, safer sex strategies, and overdose prevention and safety. 

Intended audience

The frontline staff and outreach workers of Restoration Recovery Center, Inc and CHL-Leominster.

Speakers

Justin Alves, RN, ACRN, CARN Eric Buttner, Recovery Coach Andrea Caputo, DNP, FNP-BC, CARN-AP Brandice Denette, RN-BC, BSN, CARN Adam Walsh, RN

Objectives

 

• Participants will be able to discuss Harm Reduction as a social movement.
• Participants will be able to name at least 2 ethical principles underpinning Harm Reduction.
• Participants will examine implementation strategies for combining harm reduction tenets in OBAT clinic treatment philosophies.
• Participants will be able to identify at least 6 skills related to harm reduction and the consumption of drugs or alcohol.
• Participants will be able to describe at least 3 skills or strategies to promote safer sex among people who use drugs or alcohol
• Participants will be able to name at least 2 traditional strategies and 2 novel strategies for overdose prevention

Sponsored by

Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS), Boston Medical Center Office Based Addiction Treatment and Technical Assistance (BMC OBAT TTA), State Targeted Response Technical Assistance Consortium, Opioid Response Network, National Institute of Health (NIH) HEALing Communities Study - Massachusetts (HCS-MA), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Accreditation information

Boston Medical Center grants 2.0 contact hours to all nurses who attend this course and complete the evaluations. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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