Keck USC 1st Annual Harm Reduction in Clinical Praxis 2021
Format:1 videos + 1 pdf, size: 7.6 GB
Course Audience: Addiction Medicine Physician
Overview:
Date & LocationSaturday, September 25, 2021, 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Virtual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
OverviewHarm Reduction Los Angeles was founded by a group of graduate and medical students at CDU, USC, UCLA and Kaiser Permanente with the focus of improving health, healthcare, and safety in clinical spaces for PWUD. We operate with the understanding that drug policy in the US has racist and anti-immigrant origins and is selectively enforced to harm Black, Brown, Indigenous and Immigrant communities. With this basis, we seek to disseminate information regarding care that is trauma-informed, human rights-informed, and whole person centered. We center our efforts on those disproportionately affected by systemic violence including PWUD, sex workers, LGBTQIAA+, undocumented people, BIPOC folks, and communities at the crossroads of these identities. Guided by the values of harm reduction, we aim to carry forward health justice work that affirms the inherent wholeness of each person and envision working towards developing and reforming systems to further collective healing.
There has been a rise in implicit bias training and understanding of prejudice; however, this conference aims to go further by offering interventional, institutional, and structural tools specific to improving care and outcomes for people who use drugs (PWUD). This conference aims to provide healthcare workers with an educational experience that translates into their clinical practice in order to dismantle treatment protocols and structures that uphold systems of violence against PWUD.
ObjectivesBy the end of the course, participants will be able to:- Provide healthcare workers with actionable steps to integrate harm reduction practices into patient care for PWUD.
- Provide healthcare workers actionable steps to create structural change within their institutions to improve care and outcomes for PWUD.
- Identify social networks and programs that healthcare workers can utilize to improve care for their patients who use drugs.
*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below
Syllabus (PDF Format)
September 25 (Video MP4 Format) (4 hours 30 minutes)
*Detail:
Opening Remarks7:45AM – 7:50AMSid Ganesh, AB, BSKeynote Address7:50AM – 8:20AMRicky Bluthenthal, PhDQuestion and Answer with Ricky Bluthenthal8:20AM – 8:30AM‘Deservingness’ of Care: Perspectives on Medical System Engagement from People who Use Drugs8:30AM – 9:00AMAlex Collins, MDQuestion and Answer with Alex Collins9:00AM – 9:10AMBreak9:10AM – 9:20AMBeyond Magic Bullets: White Race as Determinant of Opioid Crisis9:20AM – 10:05AMHelena Hansen, MD, PhDQuestion and Answer with Helena Hansen10:05AM – 10:15AMAt the Intersection of Substance Use, Sex Work, and Clinical Spaces: Community Perspectives on Institutional Violence via Patient-Provider Interactions10:15AM – 10:45AMQuestion and Answer with Soma Snakeoil10:45AM – 10:55AMWomxn and Birthing Populations that Use Drugs: Community Perspectives on OB-GYN, Reproductive, Sexual, and Family Health11:05AM – 11:35AMRebecca Lynn T Prediletto, DNP, CNM, IBCLCQuestion and Answer with Rebecca Prediletto11:35AM – 11:45AMCase-by-Case: Clinical Perspectives on Harm Reduction in Outpatient and Inpatient Settings11:45AM – 12:35PMKimberly L Sue, MD, PhDQuestion and Answer with Kimberly Sue12:35PM – 12:45PMPolicy Update and Closing Remarks12:45PM – 1:00PMTucker Avra, DVM