Safer Smoking and Sniffing

Event description
Sponsored by BSAS
No

The Harm Reduction Series is designed to provide care givers 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 harm from inhaled and intranasal use of illicit substances. Strategies to reduce communicable infections and to prevent damage to lung and skin and soft tissue infections will be discussed. Additionally, the risks associated with open flame and adulterated substances will be explored.

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 identify the types of substances that can be used through inhalation and insufflation. 
  • Participants will be able to identify risks associated with the inhalation and insufflation of illicit substances. 
  • Participants will be able to outline strategies for safer consumption of substances nasally or through inhalation. 
  • Participants will be able to identify the importance of overdose prevention plans for patients using inhaled or insufflated substances. 

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services.

Details
Presenter
Vanessa Loukas, MSN, FNP-C, CARN-AP
Event date
to
Attendance mode
Online
Address

United States

Cost
Free
Contact
Tavi Hristova