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SF Managed Alcohol Program’s Aim to Serve the Latinx Population with Severe AUD (Poster Session)

Alcohol related mortality is increasing nationally. Latinx individuals experience worse alcohol- related health complications and mortality, face greater criminalization, and have limited access to treatment. In San Francisco, 26% of individuals with AUD receiving care within the behavioral health system identify as Latinx despite only comprising 15% of the overall population. Alcohol-attributable premature mortality ranks …

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APHA 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo Summary

In 2022, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council chaired the development of the Caucus on Homelessness (CoH) program for the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the annual meeting was: “150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity.” Social equity is, as …

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Community Conversations: Syringe Access and Safer Consumption

In our December Community Conversation, we will dive into the topics of syringe services and safer consumption. Syringe access is an important harm reduction strategy that can reduce the transmission of infectious diseases and increase linkages to substance use treatment and other health care services. We will start with an overview of the state of …

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Coffee Chat: Reproductive Health

Part of our new “Ethics Coffee Chats” series for clinicians, this discussion will explore ethical issues related to reproductive health. Clinicians often face challenging ethical situations when assisting people of reproductive age who are experiencing homelessness—from knowing which reproductive health issues to discuss with youth without homes to addressing the ethical considerations related to reproductive …

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The Abyss: Addiction, Homelessness, and Trauma

Webinar Slides(PDF) Without healing, trauma can structure a person’s brain in a way that sets them up to be a high risk for addiction. Addiction is one of the most effective and efficient ways to kill the physical and psychological pain resulting from trauma. This short-term relief too often becomes an all-consuming way of life, …

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Treating Opioid Addiction in Homeless Populations: Challenges and Opportunities Providing Medication Assisted Treatment (Buprenorphine)

Webinar Slides(PDF) Our nation is facing an opioid epidemic that has reached crisis levels; drug overdose deaths have surpassed car accidents and firearms as the leading cause of injury and death in the U.S. In 2014 47,000 people died of drug overdoses, more than any other year on record, and opiate overdoses accounted for more …

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The SPOT: Boston’s New Harm Reduction Program for Opioid Users Forges New Ground

Webinar Slides(PDF) In response to the local overdose crisis in Boston, the Boston Health Care for The Homeless Program (BHCHP) recently opened the Supportive Place for Observation and Treatment (SPOT), which provides people with opioid use disorder a safe space where they are monitored during periods of sedation after taking substances. Participants are also offered …

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Health Care for the Homeless Models of Integrated Care

Webinar Slides(PPT) This webinar will focus on the models of integrated care that three health care for the homeless projects has adopted in order to better serve homeless populations. Homeless populations are much more likely to have complex, multiple occurring disorders that include chronic, somatic conditions coupled with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Traditional models …

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