Harm Reduction Solutions Inspired by the Community: Safe Opioid Supply and Street Outreach Medicine

Public Health Insight

In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Sereda remains with us to share her experience as the lead physician practicing street outreach medicine to support people who use street-level drugs, people living in homelessness, and women involved in the survival sex trade through London Intercommunity Health Centre’s Safe Opioid Supply program, which is currently the longest-running of its kind in Canada.

Podcast Guests

• Dr. Andrea Sereda

Podcast Hosts

• Gordon Thane, BMSc, MPH, PMP®
• Ben Umakanthan, HBSc, MPH

References for Our Discussion

• London InterCommunity Health Centre: Safer Opioid Supply Program
• Opioid Crisis: The Other Pandemic

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