Overcoming OUD Treatment Barriers for People Experiencing Homelessness

Friday, April 5, 2024

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Presenter(s)

Marina Gaeta Gazzola, MD

Resident Physician
NYU Langone/NYC Health and Hospitals Bellevue Emergency Medicine Residency, New York
Donnie Rose

NLCC Lead Navigator
New London CARES, Connecticut
Trish Rios, Community Health Worker

Assistant Director of NLCC Navigators
New London CARES, Connecticut
Nicholaus J. Christian, MD, MBA, FASAM

Staff Clinician
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Maryland

Slides
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Kelly Thompson, MA

President & CEO
Alliance for Living, Connecticut

Non-presenting author(s)

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Jennifer Muggeo, MPH

Director of Health
Ledge Light Health District, Connecticut

This workshop, led by peer support specialists, harm reduction organizers, and addiction medicine clinician-researchers with expertise in street medicine and caring for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) will better equip clinicians to provide evidence-based addiction care for PEH. We will discuss the unique challenges PEH face when seeking addiction care and addressing these barriers through harm reduction and peer recovery coaching. Participants will engage in case-based discussions to create a comprehensive addiction treatment plan for example PEH with opioid use disorder.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

identify the challenges seeking substance use treatment among people experiencing homelessness by integrating the perspectives of people with lived experiences of both homelessness and addiction with scientific evidence.
design strategies to initiate medication for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine/methadone/naltrexone) for patients experiencing homelessness.
compare models for treating addiction among people experiencing homelessness, including peer-led mobile outreach.