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Drug User Health and the Syndemic of Infectious Diseases

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Published Date: 12/04/2024

Expiration Date: 11/12/2026

CE Credit: CME:1

Description

This presentation will define harm reduction principles, and will describe recent epidemiologic trends linking substance use disorder with infectious diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, and syphilis. It will also describe harm reduction techniques and skills that a practitioner can employ in their practice.

Presenter(s)

Brianna Norton,DO, MPH

Brianna Norton, DO, MPH is an Infectious Diseases physician, researcher, and public health advocate. Dr. Norton spent the last decade at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY treating patients for HIV, Hepatitis C, and opioid use disorder in community settings such as primary care clinics, methadone treatment programs, and syringe exchange programs. She has been the PI and co-investigator on multiple NIH research grants that aimed at increasing access to quality care for people who use drugs, and also founded of one of the first drug user health clinics that was located onsite at a syringe exchange program. She has recently joined the NYS Department of Health as the Deputy Medical Director of the AIDS Institute.

Learning Objectives

  • Define Harm Reduction Principles.
  • Describe recent epidemiologic trends linking substance use disorder with infectious diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis and syphilis.
  • Describe harm reduction techniques/skills that a practitioner can employ in their practice.

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