Humanizing Substance Use Online Event
Mon, Sep 27
|Online Event
Humanizing Substance Use: Exploring the Role of Organizations and Healthcare Professionals with Sandeep Kapoor, MD, MS-HPPL
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2021, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Humanizing Substance Use: Exploring the Role of Organizations and Healthcare Professionals
This 90-minute online event will focus on:
- Describing the current state of the substance use epidemic
- Recognizing the value in humanizing and addressing substance use as part of usual care
- Extracting destigmatization strategies for motivating organizational, cultural, and clinical change
- Panel discussion
Featuring guest speaker:
Sandeep Kapoor, MD, MS-HPPL
Assistant Vice President, Addiction Services
Emergency Medicine Service Line
Northwell Health
Director, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Department of Emergency Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Northwell Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, & Science Education
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
ABOUT WVDII
West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc. is an independent 501(C)(3) entity with a primary mission to reduce opioid and drug-related deaths by (a) preventing substance use through education, (b) reducing overdose deaths through naloxone distribution and training, and (c) supporting harm reduction and other drug-response efforts.
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West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc.
118 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
Phone: (681) 205-2287
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