Create a Harm Reduction Training Center

What You Need To Know

• Fund the development of harm reduction training institute where those with lived experience are trained to offer expert coaching and policy review for medical professionals, first responders, treatment providers, therapists, and child welfare workers, and other care providers.

• Health professionals [and others] lack adequate education, training and support structures in working with this [people who use drugs]. Negative attitudes of health professionals diminished patients' feelings of empowerment and subsequent treatment outcomes. *

Programs To Know

• In The Works : Training Hub

• Harm Reduction Online Training Institute 

Where to Go for More Information

• Respect To Connect: Undoing Stigma

• Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction from the National Institute on Drug abuse (NIDA)

• Changing how we talk about substance use 

  
  

Research

• A recent literature review identified 28 studies between 2000 and 2011 that assessed health care professionals’ attitudes toward patients with substance use problems and concluded that providers’ negative attitudes directed at such patients contribute to suboptimal care. -.Stigma among health professionals towards patients with substance use disorders and its consequences for healthcare delivery: Systematic review

• The association between perceived stigma and substance use disorder treatment outcomes: a review

• Human Rights, Stigma, and Substance Use

• Justice, stigma, and the new epidemiology of health disparities