Sponsor: Rural Communities Opioid Response Program
This LMS module introduces strategies for the ongoing, meaningful inclusion of people who use drugs. While we often hear people agree that the meaningful inclusion of people who use drugs is important, there remains an even more critical need for pursuing and implementing that inclusion. One of the guiding messages of responding to the overdose crisis is to honor the principle of “nothing about us without us”—in this case, people who use drugs. Until this is adopted across the board, our overdose response will be less successful. We can’t successfully respond to any public health crisis without involving those we are trying to reach and those that are most affected. In this guidance module, participants will learn ways to:
- Describe the well-established consensus that the meaningful inclusion of people who use drugs is absolutely critical to any successful public health response to addressing overdose deaths.
- Explain what the meaningful inclusion of people who use drugs means as a practice and who it involves.
- Offer various starting points and tools, including explaining what is involved in engagement, early infrastructure, and employment.
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This is an open ended event
- Cost:
- free