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Using BTNX Urine Drug Test Strips
This video covers how to use BTNX’s urine drug test strips as a harm reduction tool.
Fentanyl Testing Fact Sheet from the California Department of Public Health
This fact sheet about fentanyl test strips was created by CDPH with the goal of providing information to people who use drugs and health care providers.
Fentanyl Test Strips
This video from Utah Naloxone shows you how to use Fentanyl test strips.
Sample Communications Plan
This is a sample of a communications plan created by Contra Costa MEDS Coalition.
Template ‘Communications Plan Primer’
This template explains how to begin building your Communications Plan.
5 Ways to Create Compelling Messages about Childhood Trauma Using Data
This article provides five ways to strategically present data regarding childhood trauma. These five tips for presenting numbers aim to advance efforts to reduce adversity, promote resilience and improve health outcomes.
TED, “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
CDC Webpage on ACEs
This webpage provides information about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It has information on risks, prevention, research, resources, etc. related to ACEs.
Addiction doc says: It’s not the drugs. It’s the ACEs…adverse childhood experiences.”
This website provides background information on ACEs as well as a test to determine the number of ACEs a person has. There is also research and resources linked.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
This website provides information about specific types of trauma (including symptoms and behaviors associated with the trauma), resources for addressing the trauma, and information on treatments that work.
Take The ACE Quiz – And Learn What It Does And Doesn’t Mean
This website links the ACEs quiz and also information to decipher what the score you received means.