Addiction Medicine Specialist, Senior APRN Community Health Resources Enfield, Connecticut
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants will:
Identify key benefits to implementing a syringe exchange within an outpatient setting.
Demonstrate a process on how to implement a syringe service program within an outpatient setting.
Utilize their knowledge to promoting harm reduction
Presentation Summary: The provision of harm reduction supplies within an opioid treatment program is a feasible and practical method to provide comprehensive, integrated care, and creates opportunities for increased patient engagement. By implementing this novel practice of supplying patients of an outpatient opioid treatment program with on-site access to syringe exchange services, there is vast opportunity to improve health outcomes in an otherwise vulnerable and stigmatized population.
