Description
April 11, 2025 | 12:00-1:00 PM
Description:
Join the ME SUD Learning Community to learn the latest on ethical and compassionate overdose prevention. Kevin Irwin from Reduce Harm Inc. will explore recent updates to overdose prevention in relation to the modern drug supply.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss different formulations and their EBP effectiveness
- Explore the impact of different pharmacological compositions of various overdose prevention medications
Presenters:
Kevin Irwin (he/him) brings thirty years of experience working at the intersections of public health practice, policy, and research. His mission to improve individual and community health equity and wellbeing for marginalized populations has always been driven by his own gratitude as a person in recovery. He has been humbled and privileged to learn from communities across the country and overseas in various roles as a service provider, program developer, implementer, manager, director, evaluator, researcher, consultant, educator, trainer, mentor, advocate, and more.
Kevin has contracted with non-profits, State Bureaus and Agencies, universities, and other entities across the country. He has served as a co-founding inaugural Board Chair for several organizations to help their respective formations and launches, including Hope on Haven Hill, the New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition, SOS Recovery Community Organization, Texas Harm Reduction Alliance, and Reduce Harm, Inc. More recently he has served on the Boards of Vineyard House, the Friendship Service Center, the Center for Trauma-Responsive Practice Change, Corazon San Antonio, and the Homeless Leadership Coalition in Bend, Oregon, and more. Obsessed with systems change and services integration, his work intentionally spans and connects social determinants, community empowerment, prevention, treatment, and supports.
Audience:
Prescribing Clinicians and their teams
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
Contact Hours
1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
