Drugs are a powerful tool in sex trafficking toolbox. This workshop will examine the impact of opioids in survivors' lives, and scenarios that illustrate the vulnerabilities created and/or exploited by traffickers. We will also discuss the integrated treatment elements necessary to provide the greatest opportunity for a successful recovery for trafficking survivors.
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Examine available data regarding opioid use and human sex trafficking
- Explore the common patterns of the interplay between opioids and trafficking
- Understand 10 Healing Domains for recovery success
Addressing the Opioid Crisis through the expansion of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services is a critical element of any strategic plan. This plenary session will focus on ways to increase access to the continuum of OUD services through behavioral health integration with other public health initiatives in your community including Ending the HIV Epidemic, Suicide Prevention, and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). This session will be interactive and include small group discussion to facilitate peer to peer learning.
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Learn approaches that address the intersection of OUD, HIV, HCV
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Learn about the intersection between recovery-oriented systems of care and social determinants of health
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Learn best practices in suicide prevention for individuals with OUD
Research has linked religiosity and spirituality to positive prevention, recovery, and behavioral health outcomes; but little theory and practice focuses on faith communities themselves. This interactive workshop describes the Faith Partners model of congregational readiness and capacity-building that moves faith leadership from rare conversations about behavioral health to active involvement in community prevention and recovery support activities. Participants will receive tools, strategies, and a spiritual basis to initiate an effective ministry in their congregational communities.
An informed clergy, supported by committed congregational members, have a tremendous opportunity to serve their congregational community. They can offer help to those who suffer by addressing individuals and families through referral and recovery support activities as well as assistance to those who want to prevent problems through awareness, education and early intervention strategies. A ministry of prevention and recovery support offers real HOPE, HELP, and HEALING.
We will highlight the initial stages of a project with the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the E.L.C.A. and Faith Partners (a faithbased organization) to equip the faith community to address behavioral health issues. Faith Partners has trained nearly 1,000 congregational teams in 29 states with 23 different faith traditions, which include Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, and Native American congregants. These efforts are often initiated by agencies, community coalitions, ministerial associations, or denominational leadership.
A Research Study of the Faith Partners model through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) Service to Science (S2S) Evaluation Enhancement Process, has revealed key factors associated with readiness and change capacity. This research has helped move the Faith Partners model from a promising practice to an evidencebased intervention. The intervention consists of training congregational teams to provide prevention, early intervention, referral assistance, recovery support, and advocacy activities.
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Identify the importance role religion, spirituality, and faith community play to address substance use disorders including the Opioid Crisis.
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Understand Faith Partners' model in building congregational teams to collaborate with community-based prevention and recovery support efforts.
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Illustrate an initial project with the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the E.L.C.A. to equip the faith community to address substance use disorders including the Opioid Crisis.
Trauma-informed care is an intervention and organizational approach that focuses on how trauma may affect an individual's life and their response to receiving behavioral health services. This presentation will explore trauma and its prevalence in society. We will review the adverse childhood experiences study and how the five values of trauma-informed care drive connection and can be applied in multiple service settings.
Those who work as first responders are often "wounded helpers" themselves. We will look at vicarious trauma, its effects on our work and discuss strategies to practice proper self-care – for ourselves and those that depend on us for help.
Objectives:
Increase understanding of signs and symptoms of toxic stress.
Understand the linkage between toxic stress and common risk behaviors (harmful substance use, self-harm, etc.).
Improve strategies to identify and cope with toxic stress for self and colleagues.
This presentation discusses findings from a NIDA-funded qualitative Hot Spot study that investigated emerging patterns in methamphetamine and opioid co-use at the Serenity Lane treatment program in Eugene and Coburg, Oregon. The presentation will explore the following:
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The key role of regional/geographic information in understanding patterns of methamphetamine use locally
- The ways in which patients experienced stigma related to methamphetamine, opioids and the use of medication-assisted treatment
- The rationales and motivations regarding the co-use of methamphetamine and opioids which include:
- methamphetamine perceived as a safer alternative than heroin
- methamphetamine used as a strategy to detoxify or titrate the effects of heroin
- methamphetamine as a financially beneficial way to maintain a desired high
- easy access to purchasing methamphetamine and heroin in combination
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Provide information on recent trends in opioid and methamphetamine co-use
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Explore the public health implications of co-use, including harm reduction strategies for this population
Demonstrate the importance of using qualitative data to understand motivations and rationales for co-use
This presentation will provide an overview of forensic toxicology especially as it pertains to the opioid crisis. Time will be spent on drugs, trends, and case review.
Objectives:
Review of toxicology.
Review of trends.
Review of cases.
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What options can we provide those in pain? In this panel discussion, experts in non-pharmacologic treatment will discuss the latest evidence supporting the early incorporation of chiropractic care, acupuncture and physical therapy for a multitude of painful conditions. Moving these treatments onto the front lines in the thoughts of health care providers and the public has been shown to decrease opioid use in patients and improve outcomes. We will also discuss the barriers to patients' ability to access these services and potential opportunities to successfully navigate these barriers.
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Discuss the benefits of early referral to physical therapy, chiropractic care, and acupuncture in terms of decreased
downstream use of opioids.
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Describe the role of chiropractic care, acupuncture and physical therapy in the treatment of patients with pain.
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Discuss the opportunities and barriers for the utilization of non-pharmacological treatments for individuals struggling with pain.