Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit, 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Tags: drug user health
Pam Lynch, LMSW, CAADC
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand overdose response and naloxone distribution.
2. Understand fentanyl test strip distribution as an overdose prevention strategy.
3. Understand importance of drug checking services as overdose prevention.
Credits Offered:
1.0 AOA Category 1-A Credit
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM
| Harm Reduction & Drug User Health (1.7 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Fent Test Strip (706.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Harm Reduction: Continuing the Paradigm Shift (meets MI LARA requirement) (4.1 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Saved by the nose (494.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Pam Lynch, LMSW, CAADC has a 25-year history working in addiction, and its comorbidities. As a trainer for the National Harm Reduction Coalition since 1999 Lynch has studied harm reduction programming in and outside of the U.S. extensively. Lynch is credited with starting harm reduction programs in Detroit, Ypsilanti, Traverse City, Kalkaska, Cadillac, Petoskey, and Midland, Michigan and Newark, N.J. Before taking leadership of Harm Reduction Michigan, she was employed by the county mental health authority in Traverse City. Lynch holds a B.A. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master’s in social work from Grand Valley State University. She is mom to two teenage children, Faith and Isaac, and fluent in French, Spanish, and Italian.