On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Doing What Works: Overdose Prevention Sites.
The Institute for Addiction Science at the University of Southern California is holding a Distinguished Speaker Series. The featured speaker for October was Alex Kral, PhD, a Distinguished Fellow, Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice at RTI International and an epidemiologist with expertise in community-based research with urban poor populations and drug policy. His policy and evaluation research has included syringe services programs, overdose education and naloxone distribution programs, and supervised consumption site programs. Dr. Kral is currently principal investigator and co-investigator on several studies of the relationship between substance use, criminal legal involvement, infectious diseases and overdose, and federal and state drug policies, and he’s authored or coauthored more than 190 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Kral’s talk was entitled “Overdose Prevention Sites: Global and Domestic Research, Policy and Implementation.”
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