Harm Reduction Medicine, Abscesses, Safer Injecting, Stigma

Mitigating the Health Impacts of Encampment Sweeps in California: A Practice Guide for Street Medicine

Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpeP8ow9MQ

Mitigating the Health Impacts of Encampment Sweeps in California- Practice Guide.pdf

Encampment Sweeps Pocket Guide.pdf

This session marks the release of Mitigating the Health Impacts of Encampment Sweeps in California: A Practice Guide for Street Medicine, developed by the California Street Medicine Collaborative and USC Street Medicine, in partnership with the Street Medicine Institute. The Practice Guide offers practical strategies to reduce harm and protect health before, during, and after sweeps. Our expert panel, including the report’s authors, will equip street medicine practitioners with actionable strategies for providing care in the midst of escalating sweeps across the country.

‘‘You’re Always Jumping Through Hoops’’: Journey Mapping the Care Experiences of Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder-associated Endocarditis

Benjamin Bearnot, MD, MPH and Julian A. Mitton, MD, MPH Objectives: Serious infectious complications of opioid use disorder

(OUD), and specifically endocarditis, are becoming more common in the US. Individuals with OUD-associated endocarditis require long periods of complex medical care, often face recurrent addiction- and infection-related complications, and have dismal clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to perform journey mapping analysis to capture common trajectories and patterns of care for people with OUD-associated endocarditis.

(2) OUR HARM REDUCTION STORIES: Working toward healthier outcomes - YouTube  (11 minute video) Regent Park Community Health Centre It is well documented that people who use substances, experience barriers in accessing health care and social services due to stigma and discrimination. To raise awareness around this issue, in August 2013, Regent Park Community Health Centre received funding to create a 15 minute video on how harm reduction practices lead to better health outcomes. It is our hope that with this video the viewers will gain an understanding of: 1. What harm reduction is 2. How it is implemented by physicians, nurses, community workers and peer workers 3. How it positively impacts the overall health of those who are street involved (i.e. homeless/substance users/sex workers)

Communicating about Substance Use in Compassionate, Safe and Non-Stigmatizing Ways (Attached)

A Resource for Canadian Health Professional Organizations and their Membership (2019)

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/communicating-about-substance-use-compassionate-safe-non-stigmatizing-ways-2019.html

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

OD-PREP Knowledge Exchange Webinar Series Community Action Initiative Webinars (caibc.ca)  (21) Now What? Brain Injury After Overdose - YouTube (1 hour 28 min) Over five years have passed since the Province declared a public health emergency. Still, rates of overdose and poisoning deaths continue to rise. Since then, 281, 950 take-home Naxolone kits have been distributed and 100, 787 have been used to reverse an overdose. Many deaths have been averted, but what remains unsaid and unseen is that people who overdosed and survived experienced respiratory depression, where their brains were restricted from receiving oxygen for variable amounts of time. Oxygen is essential to the human brain and a lack of it can cause damage and disability.Nanaimo Brain Injury Society has worked with individuals who have experienced respiratory depression and have seen first-hand the struggles that coincide. It is through this work that they and their community partners started asking what a response to people affected by brain injury and opioid overdose would look like if it was grounded in love? Intervention is needed for those affected by respiratory depression, but not all interventions are created equal nor do they directly improve brain function and quality of life. In this webinar, presenters discuss brain injury and after care, current health system responses, and the practice of shared vulnerability and trusting partnerships for healing and creating a foundation for a different kind of overdose and drug poisoning response.