Name
PL01 - Luncheon Session: New England Rural Health Round Table Association,Combating Rural Opioid Use: Community and Provider Strategies (1.0 CE)
Date & Time
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Description
John Gale, MS, Senior Health Policy and Services Researcher, Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine
Experts recognize the value of a comprehensive community-based intervention strategy involving prevention, treatment, and recovery in reducing the burden of rural opioid use. This session will explore the prevalence of rural opioid use across different rural populations; effective components of an integrated community-based strategy involving hospitals, health care providers, public health, schools, local government, law enforcement, EMS, and community leaders; and state level strategies to engage key stakeholders to address rural opioid use.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Recognize the prevalence of rural opioid use across rural sub-populations to inform local, regional, and state strategies.
- Develop collaborative planning and implementation process to identify and address the unique constellation of issues driving opioid use in their communities.
- Select and plan for the implementation of prevention, treatment, harm reduction, recovery, prescribing guidelines, and monitoring strategies relevant to the needs of their communities.
- Establish and coordinate community-based treatment programs for individuals with opioid use disorders including buprenorphine programs through hub and spoke models as well as traditional supporting substance use, mental health, and co-occurring disorder services.