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2015 Injury-Free NC: Medication and Drug Overdose Prevention Summit 

The Injury-Free NC Medication and Drug Overdose Prevention Summit will provide you with information, tools, and connections to help address the overdose epidemic in North Carolina.

The Summit is sponsored by the Injury-Free NC partnership, a group led by the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center and the North Carolina Division of Public Health's Injury and Violence Prevention Branch. Organizing partners contributing to the Summit include the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, Community Care of North Carolina, and the Governor's Institute on Substance Abuse. This wide array of partners will help you understand the different sides of this complex issue. 

A draft agenda is available below.

Draft Agenda

2015 Injury-Free NC Medication and Drug Overdose Prevention Summit

8:00        Registration & breakfast

9:00        Welcome:  Megan Davies, MD

  Keynote: From Inevitable to Preventable: Two Decades of Opioid Overdose with Phillip Coffin, MD       

10:10     Current Overdose Data:  Scott Proescholdbell and Ruth Winecker, Ph.D

10:20     Latest from the Field: Policy & Practice

10:50     North Carolina’s State Plan for Overdose Prevention

11:10     Stories of Love, Loss, and Survival (Moderator: Robert Childs)

11:40                                                                    Morning Breakouts

1. Naloxone Provision: First Responders and EMS. Current data on EMS response, law enforcement reversals, naloxone distribution/program implementation, training

2. Strengthening Coalitions:  How to best work with media to tell a story, how to pitch a story, tips and tools

3. Integrating Primary & Behavioral Health in Overdose Prevention: Integrating Mental health and primary care, Case management and Local Health Department innovation

4. Pharmacists’ Role in Overdose Prevention:  Community and pharmacy partnerships to prevent overdose; distribution of naloxone; patient education; coalitions engaging pharmacists; Rules and regulations

1:00 Networking Lunch, Short films

2:00                                                                        Afternoon Breakouts

5. Question and Answers with Current and Former Opiate Users

6. Treatment Solutions: Panel with Treatment Specialists on Methadone and Buprenorphine and Opiate Substitution therapy

7. Insights from Funders: Conversations with funders who support community-based overdose prevention

8. Law Enforcement Panel: How to support law enforcement and their naloxone programs; what motivates them to get involved

3:15 Closing Plenary: Overdose Prevention Lessons Learned and Future Challenges with Dan Bigg

4:30 Adjourn

 

Free naloxone kits will be available at the conference!