ADDRESS THE GROWING OPIOID EPIDEMIC THROUGH IMPROVED OPIOID MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE HEALTH SYSTEM

– February 26 – 27th, 2019 – Washington DC

Clinical leaders at hospitals and health systems across the country are implementing system-wide initiatives to address the opioid epidemic.

Eager to share what’s working, and what’s not, these leaders are gathering this February to discuss organizational policies, protocols, and programs being deployed, opportunities for more effective use of PDMPs and data analytics to monitor patient and prescriber behaviors, partnerships being formed with stakeholders across the care continuum and community, alternative pain management therapies becoming available, and treatment options and recovery efforts that are working to address opioid dependence and Opioid Use Disorder.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Collaborate with Law Enforcement for the Well-Being of the SUD Population

Today’s Substance Use Disorder treatment community and law enforcement are actively exploring alternative options to arrest and pre-arrest situations in an attempt to achieve higher success rates in effectively engaging the substance abuse epidemic and making communities safer. Realizing that we cannot arrest our way out of this crisis, law enforcement, communities, and treatment professionals must collaborate to create effective alternatives. Prior to allowing those afflicted with SUD to fall into the criminal justice system, these programs can effectively deflect. With law enforcement on the front line, they are in a position to provide effective tools to assist those in need before they break the law. Pre-Arrest Diversion programs have been shown to greatly reduce local crime and provide treatment at critical, much earlier, stages.

Learn about these alternative approaches that provide streamlined collaboration between law enforcement and health care systems to offer expanded options for access to treatment.

  • Hear about successful strategies that connect law enforcement, first responders, and treatment centers to enable treatment potential and save lives
  • Discuss options and programs available to communities, law enforcement, and treatment facilities
  • Discover resources available to develop and implement the program(s) for each community’s unique requirements
  • Hear about existing Pre-Arrest Diversion programs and the benefits they have provided communities and participants
  • Learn about Overdose Detection Mapping Application Programs (ODMAP) and similar programs that provide the sharing of real-time overdose data between agencies (EMT, FD, and PD) across the country
  • Enable bidirectional sharing of information, between agencies and laboratories, regarding changes in illicit compounds and/or their prevalence, as they present in communities and are detected through drug testing performed or confiscated by law enforcement
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