Drug Checking’s role in the opioid epidemic

Drug Checking’s role in the opioid epidemic

Drug Checking’s role in the opioid epidemic

Thursday, October 17, 2019 1:00 p.m. EDT

The lecture will provide an understanding of the current opioid epidemic and the confluences of factors that paved the way for our current state of unprecedented high rates of overdose deaths. The course will discuss and define harm reduction, and focus on one tool that is currently being employed to reduce overdose among people who use drugs.