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...including prescription medications, heroin, and other synthetic narcotics have claimed 50,042 lives in 2019 and 69,710 lives in 2020.1,3 To find events in your state/county please visit the International Overdose Day website. 1 

...To find events in your state/county please visit the International Overdose Day website.  1 https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-07-16-cdc-drug-overdose-deaths-46-2019 2 https://www.cdc

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Stigma toward Naloxone: Racial-ethnic Differences and Implications for Opioid Overdose Response By Emily Pasman, PhD, LMSW Naloxone is a drug to prevent drug overdose and is now sold in pharmacies...

...e-cigarette and vaping; latest outbreak information; and how the CDC is responding. In addition, the CDC will update the latest outbreak information every Thursday, according to the article. Please visit https://www.cdc

...from the National Vital Statistics System. Features statistics including age-adjusted rates of overdose rates from 1999-2017 by urban and rural residence, and rates of overdose death in 2017 by sex,...

...o Mês de Conscientização sobre a Overdose e o Dia Internacional de Conscientização sobre a Overdose, que ocorre anualmente em 31 de agosto. Recursos: https://salud-america.org/drug-overdose

...spreads the message about the tragedy of drug overdose death and that drug overdose is preventable.   The goals of International Overdose Awareness Day are:   To provide an opportunity...

CDC Vitalsigns Differences Grew by Race, Ethnicity, and Other Factors According to a new report from the CDC, drug overdose data show troubling trends and widening disparities between diff

...disciplines, with evidence-based knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting. Includes virtual patient exercises. Tobacco-Related Disparities (CDC): This page from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&

As of February 18, 2020, CDC has confirmed: (This CDC has not provided new data since 02/18/2020) 2,807 cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported to...

Addressing health disparities and advancing equity is a major area of focus for the New England ATTC. Our ATTC offers multiple training and TA events on this topic regionally. Recent highlights...

...United States Public Health Service, VADM Jerome Adams, am emphasizing the importance of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. For Patient currently taking high doses of opioids as prescribed for pain, individuals...

...Recovery Services and an Assistant Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin Opioid-involved drug overdose deaths continue to devastate the U.S., making the opioid epidemic...

...hear less often about their substance use. As the 1981 report notes, one of those five men injected drugs, and all five used drugs. The history of HIV has long...

This slide deck provides a brief overview of the use of videoconferencing to deliver assessment and treatment services to individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and mental health conditions. It is designed to be used by behavioral health academic faculty, trainers, and state agency staff members for a variety of audiences. Each slide has notes for the presenter to provide guidance if necessary. References are included on the slides and in the notes. If you require further information on this topic, please contact the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MPATTC). You are free to use these slides and pictures but please give credit to the MPATTC when using them by keeping the branding and referencing the ATTC at the beginning of your presentation.

This slide deck provides a brief overview of the use of videoconferencing to deliver assessment and treatment services to individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and mental health conditions. It is designed to be used by behavioral health academic faculty, trainers, and state agency staff members for a variety of audiences. Each slide has notes for the presenter to provide guidance if necessary. References are included on the slides and in the notes. If you require further information on this topic, please contact the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MPATTC). You are free to use these slides and pictures but please give credit to the MPATTC when using them by keeping the branding and referencing the ATTC at the beginning of your presentation.

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), held every August 31st, is a global event that aims to raise awareness of overdose, reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths, and acknowledge the grief...

...the new year, celebrate birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, weddings, and graduations. Crack, heroin and meth amphetamines are considered socially prohibited drugs. Use of these drugs receive the greatest stigma, ostrac