Addiction Medicine Specialist, Senior APRN Community Health Resources Enfield, Connecticut
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants will:
Discuss benefits to implementing a syringe exchange within an outpatient setting.
Identify a process to implement a syringe service program within an outpatient setting.
Critique promoting harm reduction in an outpatient setting.
The hot topic discussion about the provision of harm reduction supplies within an opioid treatment program as a feasible and practical method to provide comprehensive, integrated care, and increase patient engagement. Will implementing this novel practice of supplying patients of an outpatient opioid treatment program with on-site access to syringe exchange services improve health outcomes?
