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Naloxone Training Sessions
How to access BCHD’s Naloxone Trainings:
Community Virtual Naloxone Trainings
– Register for the live training using the Eventbrite link here.
Naloxone Training Request Google form
– For organizations that request in-person or virtual trainings link here.
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Overdose Response Programs
Baltimore City’s Overdose Response Programs (ORP) distribute naloxone to residents at high risk of opioid overdose. Between 2015 and 2023, BCHD and its partners have trained more than 155,000 Baltimore residents – and saved the lives of more than 18,000 people.
To view a map of all registered Maryland ORPs, please click the link here.
Spike Response
In partnership with the Baltimore City Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Behavioral Health System Baltimore (BHSB), BCHD launched an overdose spike alert and response system in the fall of 2016. When a spike in non-fatal overdoses is detected, which is several overdoses in a small area over a short period—we send an alert to the community and community-based organizations who have opted into receiving the alerts. Our goal is to dispatch street-based outreach teams to distribute naloxone in the CSAs where the overdoses are occurring.
Leave Behind Program
The Baltimore City Health Department and EMS, with support from the Behavioral Health Administration, launched a naloxone “leave-behind” pilot beginning in the summer of 2018. When responding to overdose-related 911 calls, EMS providers have distributed or left behind over 1500 kits of naloxone to members of the family, friends, and/or other residents in the area, or at the scene of the health emergency. This program allows micro-targeting the distribution of naloxone—getting it into the hands of those most likely to save a life—even when the number of non-fatal overdoses in an area is not significant enough to trigger a complete spike response.
Our Foundation has been established as Zach’s legacy. We want him to be remembered. Our hope is to connect with families and communities struggling with addiction and provide support in many shapes and forms.
SAMHSA- Harm Reduction Framework
(Federal Policy)
-SAMHSA defines harm reduction as a practical and transformative approach that incorporates community-driven public health strategies — including prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion — to empower PWUD and their families with the choice to live healthier, self-directed, and purpose-filled lives. Harm reduction centers the lived and living experience of PWUD, especially those in underserved communities, in these strategies and the practices that flow from them.
Getting treatment for problem drinking without giving up alcohol
-An article highlighting decreased alcohol with the help of therapeutic communication
What is HarmReduction? (HRTC)
-Short video; intro Harm Reduction
Stigma and language
-pubmed article explaining how language effects stigma
Stop talking ‘dirty’
-Clinicians and their language; Journal of Medicine
The Rise and Fall of the DARE program
-explains the dichotomy of the DARE program;…”There were clear, inherent problems with setting up cops as drug experts and educators, preaching abstinence-only and expanding the War on Drugs into the classroom.”
Vermont’s Safe Consumption Sites Gets Approved
Housing is Healthcare; Portland Hotel Society