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In this Issue:
- What LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC Want Prevention Professionals to Know, A Four-Part Learning Series
- What's Happening Around the Region?
- PTTC Spotlights
- A New Product From the PTTC
- Healtheknowledge Online Course
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March 20 National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NNHAAD
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was first observed in 2007. This day is observed on the first day of Spring each year. The 2022 observance is recognized on March 20. The theme for 2022 is "Reflection. Celebration, Rejuvenation....
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www.hiv.gov
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National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week
Optimism, relevance, and timeliness are integral to the theme of the week. This theme was developed in part from results of the National Coalition for LGBTQ Health's Inaugural State of LGBTQ Health National Survey™ which features input from...
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healthlgbt.org
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Celebrate Love. Celebrate Joy
By Reverend, Doctor Denise Donnell
Substance misuse is on the rise. Period.
In 2018, 10.3 million people misused opioids1 and substance misuse is on the rise in response to the coronavirus pandemic with more than one in ten adults having reported starting or increasing use of alcohol or drugs to cope with the pandemic.2
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Substance misuse is on the rise with youth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15% of high school students reported having ever used select illicit or injection drugs.3, 4
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Substance misuse is on the rise with people who are Black. According to the American Addiction Center, in the past seven months, illicit drug use among African Americans is more than that of their Caucasian and Hispanic counterparts.
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Substance misuse is also on the rise for persons who are LGBTQIAA2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, agender, two-spirited). These lives are complicated by exclusion, exclusion that appears justified by trusted members of the community. In a toolkit published by Policy Research, Inc., being LGBTQIAA2S+ is listed as an individual risk factor that causes persons to experience homelessness.5 It’s not who LGBTQIAA2S+ people are, but others’ rejection of who they are that alters their lives. Facing such harsh realities often leads to substance misuse. An estimated 20-30% of the LGBTQIAA2S+ community misuses substances compared to 9% of the whole population.7
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The Evolving Opioid Epidemic: Fentanyl, Fentanyl Analogues,
and Other Drugs
By Iris Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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Although the dangers and benefits of opioids were recognized as early as the 19th century, the global use of opioids, both prescribed and illicit, has increased significantly in the past 15 years. Between 2005 and 2017 the national rate of opioid related hospitalizations increased 64% to 225 hospitalizations per 100,000 populations. The death rate in 2016 increased 27% from 2015. Although opioid prescribing practices began to decline in 2012 in response to the increasing rate of overdose deaths, the use of illicitly obtained and synthetic opioids has continued to rise. The lower cost of production and relative ease of distribution of synthetic opioids has created what some experts refer to as the next “wave” of the opioid epidemic.1
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What LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC Want Prevention Professionals to Know,
A Four-Part Learning Series
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Collaborating TTCs: Central East PTTC, National Hispanic & Latino PTTC, National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC
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What's Happening Around the Region? |
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South Southwest PTTC Training |
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