PDF-[BOOK]-Killing Season: A Paramedic\'s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford Connecticut twentyfive years ago he believed drug users were victims only of their own character flaws Canning began asking his patients how they had gotten started on their perilous journeys And while no two tales were the same their heartrending similarities changed Cannings view and moved him to educate himself about the science of addiction Armed with that understanding he began his fight against the stigmatization of usersIn Killing Season we ride along with Canning through the streets of Hartford as he tells stories of opioid overdose from a streetlevel vantage point A first responder to hundreds of overdoses throughout the rise of Americas epidemic Canning has seen the impact of prescription painkillers heroin and the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl firsthand Bringing us into the room or the car or the portable toilet with the victims of this epidemic Canning explains how he came to favor harm reduction which advocates for needle exchange community naloxone and safeinjection sitesStripping away the stigma of addiction through stories that are hardhitting poignant sad confessional funny and overall human Killing Season aims to change minds about the epidemic help obliterate stigma and save lives. Brief Info about the War. War Office Dispatches #1. Dec. . – Feb. 1861 . Headline: Seven Southern States Secede from Union. In November of 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. . . Opiates and opioid drugs. Why an EPIDEMIC?. Epidemic:. . The occurrence of more cases of a disease than would be expected in a community or region during a given time period. . Prescription opioid abuse and the resurgence of heroin. Opioid Crisis Summit Meeting. October 17, . 2017. Dr. Theodore J. Cicero, PhD. Washington University in St. Louis,. Department of Psychiatry. Email: . ?. How has the opioid epidemic impacted emergency room related costs. ?. How has the opioid epidemic involved families as part of . the solution. ?. How has the opioid epidemic involved education as part of the solution. Melissa A. Soliz, Esq., Coppersmith Brockelman PLC. msoliz@cblawyers.com. Bio: . http://www.cblawyers.com/melissa-soliz. /. . February 20, 2018. Agenda. Introduction: the opioid epidemic at the state and national level. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH. Bruce Trigg, MD. Karen Hochman, MD, MPH. Nov 4, 2017. No financial disclosures. The Opioid Crisis in the US: where we are and how we got here. Access to effective pain and opioid use disorder treatment. Katherine Wang, . Pharm.D. .. The Center for Children and Women – . Greenspoint. Conflict of Interest Disclosure. The presenters, planners, reviewers (including CME administrator) of today’s CME activity do not have any financial relationships or commercial interests to disclose. Ernest J Dole, PharmD, . PhC. , FASHP, BCPS. Clinical Pharmacist & . Asso. . Clinical Prof.. University of New Mexico Hospitals & College of Pharmacy. Albuquerque, NM. Learning Objectives. At the end of this presentation, utilizing a case of an older patient on chronic opioid therapy (COT) with the comorbidity of geriatric opioid abuse (GOA) the participant will be able to. Developing Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic Virginia Municipal League Annual Meeting October 6, 2019 Art Van Zee, MD Stone Mountain Health Services Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) & Overdose Prevention. Michael Baca-Atlas, MD. Addiction Medicine . Fellow. UNC . School of . Medicine. June 14, 2019. Disclosures. The presenter has nothing to . in the . Workplace. Michael Botticelli. Executive Director, Grayken Center for Addiction. Executive Summary. The . launch of the . Grayken Center for Addiction . has given . us the . opportunity to expand evidence-based . an increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that area. injury to the body (poisoning) that happens when a drug is taken in excessive amounts. when a person’s use of drugs or alcohol results in health issues or problems in their work, school, or home life; commonly called addiction. Populations:. Best . Practices . . Dr. Chanda Brown. Director, Charleston Center. cfbrown@charlestoncounty.org. Agenda. We Have an Epidemic!. Criminal justice populations. What Are Opioids and Opioid Use Disorder? . Isaac Linton. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Simon Condliffe. Department of Economics and Finance. West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Research Question. What?. Do/how do race and socioeconomic status predict opioid abuse? How do prescription and overprescription, and poverty and unemployment interact across race and SES?.