8:00 am PT - 8:05 am PT
Welcoming remarks
PRESENTERS
Mary Pittman, DrPH
President and CEO, Public Health Institute
Carmen R. Nevarez, MD, MPH
Sr. Vice President, Public Health Institute
Director, Center for Health Leadership and Practice and National Overdose Prevention Network (LEAD)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
8:05 am PT - 8:50 am PT
50 Years after the War on Drugs, What Now?
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As director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) from 1998 to 2014, Clark led the nation’s effort to make evidence-based addiction treatment more accessible to all Americans. That work informed his contributions to Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, for which he served as the section editor for treatment in 2016. Dr, Clark will review what the War on Drugs really means and what we, as a nation, need to do now to end prevent and manage substance disorder and prevent overdose deaths.
PRESENTER
H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH
Deans Executive Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00 am PT - 9:55 am PT
SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Children impacted by family SUD
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This session will feature the Philadelphia Coalition on Children and Opioids, which convened thought leaders at the intersection of substance use and child welfare from 34 organizations across justice, healthcare, and prevention sectors to reduce the impact of the opioid crisis on child welfare-involved families in Philadelphia. Funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, key objectives of the Coalition’s efforts were to reframe and examine the role of all systems involved when children live in SUD-impacted families, reduce the impact of trauma on those children, and improve interventions for parents struggling with substance use. The Coalition worked to develop recommendations to reduce the impact of the opioid crisis on child welfare-involved families. The Coalition also developed and administered workforce trainings across sectors to address common misperceptions about substance use and addiction that may inform how cases involving families impacted by substance misuse are handled; and ultimately, to limit instances of family separation and trauma when possible.
PRESENTER
Kelly Thompson, JD
Policy Analyst, Research and Evaluation Group, Public Health Management Corporation
MODERATOR
Laurie Corbin, MSS, MLSP
Managing Director for Community Engagement, Public Health Management Corporation
Legal issues in harm reduction
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This session will focus on how attempts to implement Harm Reduction Strategies sometimes requires imagination and innovation in finding legal approaches that work in a particular situation due to legal, cultural or other considerations. Both legal and community perspectives will be explored.
PRESENTERS
Corey Davis, JD, MSPH
Deputy Director, Southeastern Region Office, Director, Harm Reduction Legal Project, Network for Public Health Law
Jessica Smith, MA
Capacity Building Manager, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Serving people who use fentanyl
PRESENTERS
Hannah Snyder, MD
Co-Principal Investigator, California Bridge
Kristen Marshall
Associate Director for San Francisco Programs, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Alex H. Kral, PhD, MS
Epidemiologist and Distinguished Fellow, RTI International
Equity in SUD treatment and the ER environment
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Emergency departments tell a rich story about health inequity and can provide an opportunity to better understand and address conditions that worsen health status. This session will look at the ER environment as an opportunity to address disparity and will provide data on California racial disparities for buprenorphine access and strategies to reverse those inequities.
PRESENTERS
Kara Toles, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis, Health and Director of Equity & Inclusion
Charles Hawthorne, MPH
Equity and Harm Reduction Project Manager, California Bridge
10:00 am PT - 10:30 am PT
Break
PLENARY SESSION
10:30 am PT - 11:15 am PT
Investing in Innovation - Foundation CEOs share their vision
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This panel of foundation CEOs that focus on reducing substance use disorder impact and improving community well-being will share their thinking about what innovative models are showing promise in this arena and how their foundations are helping to build a stronger evidence base for advancing the field.
PRESENTERS
Julie Burns
President & CEO, RIZE Massachusetts
Tyler Norris, MDiv
Chief Executive, Well Being Trust
MODERATOR
Karen Scott, MD, MPH
President, FORE Foundation
FIRESIDE CHAT
11:15 am PT - 12:00 pm PT
Latino/a/x communities SUD issues; Implications for policy and practice
PRESENTER
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Maria Elena Medina-Mora, PhD, MA
General Director, National Institute on Psychiatry de la Fuente Muniz
PLENARY SESSION
12:20 pm PT - 1:05 pm PT
Understanding the relationship between equity and SUD, and what we can learn from other country approaches
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This session will focus on what has contributed to rising rates of fentanyl use in BIPOC communities, increasing overdose rates in black and brown communities and will also share what might be learned from ongoing discussions with SUD experts from other country’s approaches.
PRESENTER
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Social Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
PLENARY SESSION
1:05 pm PT - 2:00 pm PT
Communities and Justice, the view from state Attorneys General
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A conversation with Utah's state attorney general will discuss real time issues related to opioid and overdose policy.
PRESENTER
Sean D. Reyes
Utah Attorney General
MODERATOR
Ryan Greenstein
Legislative Director, National Association of Attorneys General
PLENARY SESSION
2:15 pm PT - 2:55 pm PT
When the disaster strikes: Experience from the field for preserving life-saving services and outreach to people who use drugs
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Under the circumstances of a disaster such as firestorm, hurricane, floods or other mass events, how do community needs change when people are forced by circumstance into communal shelter? Lifesaving outreach and services that are normally strained because of funding, geographic challenge and stigma must conform to unexpected conditions that may force people who use drugs into greater invisibility. This panel will draw from deep experience under these conditions and offer some considerations and strategies for operating services under these circumstances.
PRESENTERS
Savannah O’Neill, MSW
Associate Director of Capacity Building, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Mary Maddux-Gonzalez, MD, MPH
Coach and Preparedness Consultant, California Overdose Prevention Network
Aleka Heinrici, MD
Director of Addiction Medicine, San Ysidro Community Health Center
CLOSING KEYNOTE
2:55 pm PT - 3:25 pm PT
HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy- Prevention - Harm Reduction - Treatment - Recovery
PRESENTER
Rebecca Haffajee, JD, PhD, MPH
Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services