AMERSA Talks

Episode 1: Test Your Drugs, Not Your Limits - The Role of Advanced Drug Checking in Harm Reduction

Featuring:
Allyson Pinkhover, MPH, CPhT, CHO
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, Brockton, MA
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Darlene Andrade Fonseca, BS
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, Brockton, MA
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA

Hosted by: Joe Wright, MD
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston, MA

Episode one highlights how community-based advanced drug checking supports people who use drugs, harm reduction staff, and clinical providers. Hear from Darlene Andrade Fonseca and Allyson Pinkhover of Brockton Neighborhood Health Center about their work implementing drug checking with real-time FTIR technology, together with other tools. Alongside host Dr. Joe Wright of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, the trio discusses how advanced drug checking promotes autonomy for program participants and helps both harm reduction staff and clinical providers to better individualize the services they provide.

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Funding for this initiative was made possible by cooperative agreement no. 1H79TI086770 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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Listen now to a sneak peek at episode one from AMERSA's new podcast series Harm Reduction: Compassionate Care for People Who Use Drugs, called Test Your Drugs, Not Your Limits - The Role of Advanced Drug Checking in Harm Reduction

Featuring:
Allyson Pinkhover, MPH, CPhT, CHO
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, Brockton, MA
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Darlene Andrade Fonseca, BS
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, Brockton, MA
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA

Hosted by: Joe Wright, MD

Full episode will launch July 11th, 2024

Find us online at amersa.org, and see our tweets at x.com/AMERSA_tweets.

Funding for this initiative was made possible by cooperative agreement no. 1H79TI086770 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Learn more about PCSS-MOUD at pcssnow.org.