Events & Webinars
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Reducing the Risk: How to Stop Overdose Deaths
This Web Forum will explore strategies to bridge isolation and reconnect with people whose lives have been deeply impacted by addiction. Learn how building trust and meaningful connection can support healing, informed by decades of experience.
The Path to Recovery: Understanding the Ups and Downs of Addiction Treatment
Join the National Overdose Prevention Network for a deeper look into the realities of addiction treatment and steps your community can take to help reduce stigma and expand paths toward recovery.
When the Holidays Hurt: How to Support Ourselves and Others Through Grief Including Loss Associated with Substance Use, Addiction and Overdose
This training will explore why the holidays are difficult for grievers, and what actions we can take to help someone living with loss. We’ll talk about what is helpful and what isn’t when we are supporting those we care about and work with who are facing the intersection of the holidays and challenges related to substance use, dependency and recovery.
Communities Preventing Overdose: 3 Local Strategies to Prevent Addiction, Support Recovery, and Save Lives
Join us to explore how communities across the country are preventing overdose, expanding access to treatment, and saving lives through innovation and collaboration.
Addiction 101:Understanding Lived Experience and the Science to Prevent Overdose
The first of this six-part series features two perspectives: someone with lived experience of addiction and recovery, and an addiction specialist sharing the latest science and prevention strategies. This webinar builds awareness, reduces stigma, and equips communities with tools to prevent overdose.
Saving Lives Where They’re Lived: Street Medicine & Overdose Prevention in Action
Join us for a powerful conversation to hear how street medicine outreach teams are working together to prevent overdose and save lives.
Creating Safe Space: What Young People Need in Overdose Prevention
For youth facing behavioral health challenges, safety is the foundation for prevention and harm reduction. This Web Forum will explore trauma-responsive approaches to creating welcoming, supportive spaces that build trust and encourage meaningful engagement.
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Behind the Numbers: Making Sense of Trends in the Drug Supply and Overdose Rates
Have you had trouble making sense of recent trends in the drug supply and overdose rates? You’re not alone. In recent years, countless new synthetic drugs have entered the drug supply, and various theories are posited for changes in overdose death rates.
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Engaging Pharmacists: Opportunities for Overdose Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction
Pharmacists play a critical role in overdose prevention. Hear from a community pharmacist, a public health pharmacist, and a state-level advocacy organization on how to effectively engage local pharmacists in your work.
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The Power of Connection
The work we do in overdose prevention has always been difficult, but added stressors continue to cause unprecedented levels of toxic stress and burnout. Together we will hear from Brooke Briggance, Program Director at Cypress Resilience Project to learn about “collective care” and “community care” and which stems directly from the brain’s need for healthy connection. During this web forum Brooke will explore what healthy connection looks like, its role in healing and how we can access it to support our well-being.
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Shattering the Stigma of Substance Use Disorders
Understand the real-world impact of addiction stigma with Leslie Alfaro, Program Manager at Shatterproof’s National Stigma Initiative. Gain insights from the largest nationwide survey on SUD stigma, explore its historical roots, and learn actionable steps to reduce stigma in your community.
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Turning Policy into Practice: Implementation Guides for Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction
In this Web Forum, ChangeLab Solutions will introduce two essential policy guides: one offering 11 evidence-based strategies at the state, local, and institutional levels, and the other created in partnership with the Network for Public Health Law providing guidance on the policymaking process for effective and equitable implementation.
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Foundations of Indigenous Harm Reduction
Join us for a conversation with Arlene Brown, member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe and creator of the National Harm Reduction Coalition’s new Native Harm Reduction Toolkit.
Lessons in Framing Overdose Prevention: A National Conversation
To support advocates nationwide to communicate more effectively on their harm reduction strategies, Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) will share messaging guidelines that draw on findings from a recent review of overdose prevention materials in contexts nationwide.
Lessons in Framing Overdose Prevention: Considerations for Rural Communities
To support rural stakeholders to communicate more effectively, Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) will share messaging guidelines that draw on findings from a recent news analysis and learnings about framing overdose prevention in rural contexts nationwide.
Tackling Stimulant Use Disorder: Opportunity of Contingency Management
The National Overdose Prevention Network will discuss the intricacies of contingency management and explore its nationwide implementation and seamless integration with other Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) strategies.
Committing to Equity: How to Drive Change in Overdose Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction
Join the National Overdose Prevention Network (NOPN) for a two-part virtual event to learn about the systems, policies and practices that contribute to inequities, and steps you can take to drive change.
Policy Solutions: Combatting Overdose Deaths & Enhancing Treatment Access in California
Policy change is critical to sustaining our most effective overdose prevention strategies. Several significant policies were recently enacted in California that can help bolster your local work.
What Lies Ahead: Key Trends in Overdose Prevention in 2024
This event promises a glimpse into groundbreaking concepts and cutting-edge advancements that are set to shape the landscape in 2024.