Education and Training
The Drug User Health Learning Institute provides comprehensive education and training offerings on a broad range of topics of interest to diverse audiences. The Institute offers continuing education credits for many of the courses and features a variety of resources on drug user health.
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Health Equity in Overdose Prevention and Response Activities Certificate
This certificate track explores how social determinants, stigma, and systemic inequities shape health outcomes for people who use drugs. Learners will gain a deep understanding of trauma-informed care, medical mistrust, cultural competence, and faith-based healing as foundations for equitable service delivery.
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Nurturing Resilience: Building Stronger Futures Through Harm Reduction
This module provides insights on and discusses evidenced-based strategies to promote harm reduction among the youth population.
Understanding and Addressing Stigma and Discrimination in Addiction
This webinar will briefly review the new knowledge gained during the past 50 years. The faculty will describe the shifts in cultural understanding of addiction that have given rise to new research and approaches that can help reduce stigma and discrimination against people with substance use disorders.
Culture and Society: Influencers of Mental Health and Substance Misuse
This webinar will discuss how to promote equity, improve access, and increase retention in care among BIPOC communities in healthcare.
Aging Gracefully with Harm Reduction: Reducing Harm and Enhancing Well-Being
This session provides a non-clinical view of harm reduction, with a particular focus on its intersection with aging.
Destigmatization of Drug Use
This session explores the impact of stigma on people who have been diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD) and those who are not clinically diagnosed but display symptoms. The presenter examines the relationship between stigma and systemic racism, as well as racism’s compounding effect on access to healthcare services for people who use drugs. The presenter also provides strategies for challenging stigma and misconceptions about SUD.
Harm Reduction and Family
This training provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of harm reduction and its practical application in daily life.
The New Paradigm in Addiction Treatment: Introduction to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP), Clinical Rationale, Theory and Technique
Drawing on relational, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness therapies, IHRP techniques are uniquely tailored to each person. A central focus on therapeutic alliance and relationship creates a safe context in which to clarify the meanings and functions of risky and addictive behavior, enhance self-regulation and develop alternative healthier, self-affirming solutions.
Nutrition for Pain Management
This module reviews the impact of diet and chronic illness on pain. It assists providers by improving their ability to discuss various evidence-based diets that can help to alleviate pain.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mind-Body Techniques in Addressing Pain
This module introduces two non-pharmacological approaches for addressing pain: CBT and mind-body techniques. These techniques are examined for effectiveness and explored in depth to enable learners to utilize these approaches in practice.
Acupuncture, Massage, and Self-Care
This module examines three related non-pharmacological approaches to pain management.
Harm Reduction Approaches for Providers Addressing Opioid Use
This module identifies and discusses relevant harm reduction techniques for people who use opioids, including people who use injectable drugs. The module will address how to hold patient-centered clinical conversations, incorporating harm reduction techniques. These strategies are then applied to a case study.