Resources
 

Resource Library

Toolkits, guides, and other resources vetted by experts in overdose prevention.

 

Filter by category and tags, or search by keyword (ex. COVID-19, harm reduction).

Overdose Prevention Strategies Josie Daaboul Overdose Prevention Strategies Josie Daaboul

TED, “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Read More

Faith-Based Partnerships in Opioid Overdose Prevention

This presentation focuses on strategies to engage communities of faith in overdose prevention efforts, identifies potential barriers and facilitators to implement overdose prevention strategies among communities of faith, and the presenters discuss resources that can be used to empower faith leaders to address the opioid epidemic in their communities.

Read More