Discover Effective Actions for Creating and Advancing Equity-Based Harm Reduction Strategies at a New Webinar From the AMA and Manatt Health.

Harm reduction seeks to minimize the negative impacts associated with drug use and is an essential strategy to save lives. In a new webinar, the American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health will lead a panel of experts in a dynamic discussion of comprehensive, equity-based, evidence-based harm-reduction strategies. The program will present best practices for lowering barriers and ensuring access to harm-reduction services and programs—and share broader state approaches to harm reduction strategies, policies and laws.

Key questions the webinar will address include:

• How does harm reduction save lives?
• What are the key elements and principles of harm reduction?
• What is the latest thinking on harm reduction, and how will it evolve to respond to COVID-19 and other recent developments?
• What actions can states take to implement and support broad, evidence-based harm reduction strategies?
• What are the legal barriers associated with harm reduction, and how are they being addressed?
• What funding and resources are available to support harm reduction efforts?
• What roles do race and stigma play in the availability of and access to harm-reduction strategies?

Panel Moderator:

Jocelyn Guyer, Managing Director, Manatt Health
Q&A Moderator: Daniel Blaney-Koen, Senior Legislative Attorney, AMA

Panelists:

• Ricky Bluthenthal, Ph.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Social Justice, USC
• Steve DeToy, Director of Government and Public Affairs, Rhode Island Medical Society
• Ronda Goldfein, Esq., Vice President of SafeHouse
• Gordon Smith, J.D., Director of Opioid Response, State of Maine

Date and Time

Wednesday, July 21, 2021