09.25.25 - 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Topic: Harm reduction, Opioids, Overdose, Training
Audience: Provider, Substance Use Services, Employees, Employers/worksites, PWUD, People in recovery, General public
Description: Drug-related stigma presents barriers to effectively supporting clients who use drugs. Our biases are learned from a culture that stigmatizes drug use and ostracizes those with substance use disorders. This three-hour training will focus on identifying our biases and societal stigma surrounding people who use drugs and actions we can take to address them.
Participants will:
- Unpack drug-related stigma at the community, individual, and structural level
- Gain a framework (ladder of inference) and tools to examine personal biases and unpack them
- Learn about the manifestations of drug-related stigma in media, policies, politics, etc.
- Develop strategies to challenge workplace/community policies and culture that perpetuate stigma
- Build skills to interrupt/challenge drug-related stigma at the interpersonal level
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered in partnership with AdCare Educational Institute.
For questions about this training, please contact Michael Leonard at [email protected].
For questions about CEUs, please contact Emelie Trayah at [email protected].
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