Dan's talk places opioid-related overdose in the United States within a health perspective and suggests proven ways to reduce its current carnage as the leading cause of accidental deaths in this country.
Dan is one of the founders of Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA) and, for the last 26 years, Dan has been the Director of the CRA. CRA is at anypositivechange.org and we are group that conducts harm reduction outreach and helps develop the practice of harm reduction. Over the last 28 years we have been guided by CRA participants to develop programming to prevent opiate-related overdose deaths with naloxone distribution; avoid hepatitis with safer injection and hepatitis A/B vaccination, and pilot test mobile opiate substitution therapies. Dan also helped start the US Harm Reduction Coalition and was a Project Developer for the International Harm Reduction Institute of the Open Society Foundations over the last 25 years. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx