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Toolkits, guides, and other resources vetted by experts in overdose prevention.
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Spotlight: Naloxone Distribution Plans
This video explains naloxone distribution strategies such as, engaging police, schools, pharmacies, jails, and the public. The accompanying infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice.
Naloxone Distribution Plans
This infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice.
Spotlight: Strategies to Prevent Overdose Deaths
This video explains trends in opioid overdose deaths and gives current strategies to combat those deaths such as, naloxone, safe injection sites, and needle exchanges.
Reducing Opioid Overdoses
This infographic discusses multiple approaches to reduce overdose deaths.
Colliding Crises: Using Persuasive Narratives to Tell the Story of Overdose Prevention
This webinar introduces you to powerful communication strategies to help focus attention on how COVID-19 is affecting your community and discusses how to use persuasive narratives to break through the clutter.
Change Management Strategies: Adapting Your Coalition in the Era of COVID-19
This session offers insights into how to think about the current moment as a way forward for your coalition. We offer strategies for managing change, and generate discussion on how to adapt your coalition in light of this shifting environment.
Harm Reduction and COVID-19: How to adapt your community strategies
This webinar features Savannah O’Neill from the Harm Reduction Coalition who addresses the impact of COVID-19 on people who use drugs, how to adapt your local programs, and available resources.
Trauma Informed Communities: How trauma impacts ourselves, our communities and our response to COVID-19
This workshop discusses the neurobiology of trauma, community trauma and inherent community resilience, how COVID-19 is impacting our levels of toxic stress, and how we can take tangible steps to heal ourselves individually and transform our organizations into trauma-responsive agencies.
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) Fact Sheet
Syringe Services Programs aim to help stop substance use, reduce infection rates among those who inject drugs, and prevent overdose deaths by distributing naloxone to law enforcement.
Harm Reduction Coalition
Harm Reduction Coalition is a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that works to promote the health and dignity of individuals and communities who are impacted by drug use.
Harm Reduction 101
Harm reduction is a set of ideas and interventions that seek to reduce the harms associated with both drug use and ineffective, racialized drug policies.
Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Management During COVID-19: 6 Takeaways
Guidance from the federal and state government about the delivery of and payment for remote services (e.g., telehealth), links to virtual recovery supports for patients with substance use disorder, approaches to team care and self-care, and links to key content from other programs.
DEA and Telehealth
This site gives resources and updates on telehealth policies, during COVID-19.
Responder Training + Naloxone Distribution
This site provides resources and gives first responders or those who use drugs easy access to naloxone.
Resources for drug use and COVID-19 risk reduction
Guidance documents, government advisories, and tools for people who use drugs and stakeholders likely to engage with people who use drugs
Practicing Harm Reduction in the COVID-19 Outbreak
Guidance for syringe services/harm reduction providers and safer drug use in the COVID-19 outbreak.