Harm Reduction Medicine, Abscesses, Safer Injecting, Stigma

Bevel Up Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing is an educational kit (including a DVD with special features and a bilingual Teaching Guide) created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control's Street Nurse Program provide health care to the people living in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Designed and produced by the street nurses themselves in collaboration with community members, Bevel Up offers instructors and students access to the experience of an entire community of health care practitioners who work with drug using populations. Here is the movie https://www.nfb.ca/film/bevel_up_drugs_users_and_outreach_nursing/

Here is the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDZhVnR3HC8

Innovations in Nursing: A Perfect Match: Harm Reduction and Emergency Department Nursing (60 minutes)

Integrate harm reduction principles into nursing practice and use non-stigmatizing language that facilitates trust among patients. Learn how patient-centered language, harm reduction tools and naloxone distribution can save lives. WEBSITE: cabridge.org/trainings​

Low Barrier Buprenorphine: Treatment Guide for People Experiencing Homelessness April 2021 webinar/training (attached slides) The webinar recording is here: https://vimeo.com/538734559

Speakers: Karah Cohen, Project Home; Barry Zevin, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Cheryl Ho, valley Homeless Healthcare Program, Joanna Eveland, San Francisco Department of Public Health

Medicine and Drug Use: What Can A Primary Care Provider Do? By LACHP and Dr. Phillip Coffin https://vimeo.com/89683732 In this video, prepared for the LA Community Health Project, Dr. Phillip Coffin gives a training for prescribers on medicine and drug use. It will cover the major medical sequelae of drug use & approaches prescribers can use to improve the health of drug using patients.

Hitting Home: Safer Drug Injection for Hepatitis B & C Prevention (36 minutes- explicit- real life demo’s in real life situations of injecting--great for healthcare providers who have never seen the injecting process, want to learn about and have a tool to talk with people re: risk reduction practices)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLKRJr36S84 Chicago Recovery Alliance’s 2006 film offers a tutorial for people who inject and those who work to assist them in achieving “any positive change.” The film’s objective is to provide viewers with real-life examples of practical, realistic techniques for reducing the risk of acquiring and/or transmitting hepatitis B/C during the drug injection process. The film breaks the drug injection process into stages, or steps. For each step, we feature actual injections (heroin &/or crack cocaine) that demonstrate unsafe/high-risk technique followed by injections that show improved/lower risk technique. Ultimately this video is best used as a tool for drug injectors and harm reduction outreach workers to talk about and/or experiment with making the kinds of minor changes in drug injection technique that will yield large changes in personal and community health and wellbeing. The film also serves as a resource for health care providers who rarely, if ever, get to observe their drug injecting patients’ self-medicating practices in situ. Created in collaboration with Sawbuck Productions .