The Harm Reduction Series is designed to provide caregivers and providers with information on best practices for caring for individuals who are actively using substances. The education series will teach ways to expand the treatment continuum to include engaging and keeping people safe when they are actively using substances including alcohol, opioids, stimulants, and tobacco. The series is designed for a broad range of audiences and each module will be presented with an expert from the community to provide insight regarding strategies for engagement and implementation.
This training will review strategies to reduce non-communicable infectious diseases in patients that use injection drugs. Safer injection technique, equipment needed for safe injection, and strategies to reduce skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) will be reviewed. Additional education will be provided about the basics of wound and abscess care for patients to prevent worsening SSTIs.
CE/CME credits pending approval.
Intended audience
The entire multidisciplinary team providing treatment for substance use disorders in an office-based setting as well as anyone in a clinical or non-clinical position that is interested in learning about harm reduction.
Objectives
- Participants will be able to recall non-communicable infections associated with injection drug use.
- Participants will be able to define a process of safer injection drug use.
- Participants will be able to detect opportunities for improvement in injection drug use technique based on the presentation of a patient.
- Participants will be able to educate patients regarding prevention of skin and soft tissues infections related to injection drug use.
Sponsored by
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services.
