/ July 2023: Meeting people where they are: Implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction

July 2023: Meeting people where they are: Implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction

July 20, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Join us to discuss the work of Rachel Perera and colleagues! 

Hospital-based substance use disorder care typically focuses on assessing and diagnosing substance use disorders, helping people with withdrawal symptoms, and starting patients on medications for addiction treatment. This paper talks about a hospital-based harm reduction program. Over a year, this program’s staff provided 195 people with harm reduction kits.