Training overview: Meaningful involvement of people who use drugs can increase support for harm reduction policy and advocacy efforts; challenge myths related to drug use, HIV, and viral hepatitis; and reframe the narrative supporting criminalization. Opportunities for job training and employment are in themselves an important component of harm reduction in communities of people who use drugs. […]
Training Overview: The goal of this session is to provide general guidelines for preventing and managing conflict, as well as concrete and practical strategies to address conflict when it arises. We will discuss what conflict looks like, the role of stigma and trauma in conflict, and how to build personal skills in self-management and safety […]
Training Overview: More than 50% of people who have a substance use disorder have a co-occurring mental health disorder. It is the rule, not the exception, with trauma almost universal among people who misuse substances. Yet more than half of young people who misuse drugs will mature out of a problematic relationship with drugs by […]
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