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Resources and Tools

National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center Training Deck on Harm Reduction and Syringe Access

This PowerPoint slide deck reviews the foundations of harm reduction philosophy and practice, summarizes drug user health issues and trends, and aims to increase cultural competence and humility when working with people who use drugs.

SSC Webinar Companion Guide: Interrupting Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Opioid Use Disorder

This webinar companion guide offers attendees a resource to supplement the information covered during a webinar and extend the webinar’s benefits beyond the allotted presentation time. It contains:

Webinar Companion Guide: Building Relationships with your Medicaid Agency to Improve HIV and OUD Care
This webinar companion guide provides information for the April 2021 Building Relationships with your Medicaid Agency to Improve HIV and OUD Care webinar.
Webinar Companion Guide: Strengthening Systems of Care: Supporting People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder following Incarceration

This webinar companion guide provides information for the January 2021 Strengthening Systems of Care: Supporting People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder following Incarceration webinar.

Webinar Slides: Models of Integrated Care for HIV and Opioid Use Disorder: Considerations for Community and Clinical Settings

This document contains slides for the September 2020 Models of Integrated Care for HIV and Opioid Use Disorder: Considerations for Community and Clinical Settings webinar.

Webinar Slides: Building Support for Syringe Service Programs as Essential Services

This document contains slides for the July 2020 Building Support for Syringe Service Programs as Essential Services webinar.

Decreasing Systemic Barriers Along the HIV Care Continuum for Patients with Substance Use Disorders

This webinar describes systemic barriers faced by patients with HIV and substance use disorders, and discusses steps providers can take to decrease these barriers and support integration of behavioral health and HIV public health interventions. 

Keywords: HIV, substance use

Heroin, Prescription Opioids, and HIV: What Clinicians Need to Know

This ready-to-use training package is designed to provide HIV clinicians (including physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with an overview of the opioid crisis and HIV.

Nature of Addiction and HIV

The ready-to-use training package is designed to provide HIV clinicians (including physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with an overview of the neurobiology of addiction, the impact of HIV on the brain and central nervous sys

Short and Simple: Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention in HIV Care Settings

This ready-to-use training package is designed to provide HIV clinicians (including physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with a detailed overview of screening patients for at‐risk alcohol and other drug use and conducting a b