Together for Hope 2024

Advances and controversies in addiction treatment

For more details on each session, please visit the program information page. For location in formation, please review the campus map. 

7:30am
Registration/Breakfast
Reggie Lewis Center

8:30am
Keynote Address: Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

9:05am
Plenary Panel 1: Pathways from Recovery to Professional Success in Addiction Treatment 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

9:50am
Plenary Talk: Challenges and Successes Implementing Addiction Treatment in Community Health Centers 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

10:15am
Break/Networking Opportunity 

10:40am
Welcome from Jackie Jenkins-Scott, MSW, President, Roxbury Community College

10:45am
Plenary Panel 2: What Does Culturally Tailored Addiction Treatment Look Like
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

11:35am 
Concurrent Breakout Sessions (See campus map for building locations.) 

• Panel: Expanding the role of nurses in SUD treatment
  Media/Arts Building 301, Great Room
• Panel: Offering outpatient methadone treatment under the 72 hour rule
  Building 3, 113G
• Coping with a CORI – Criminal Offender Record Information for people with a substance use disorder 
  Building 3, 113E
• The role of psychedelics in addiction treatment
  Building 3, 121
• Overview of treating stimulant use disorder 
  Building 3, 113F
• Addiction 101  
  Building 3, 532
• Medications to decrease relapse to AUD
  Building 3, 521
• Presentation of oral abstracts: Addiction treatment (Session 1)
  Building 3, 451
• Presentation of oral abstracts: Addiction treatment (Session 2)
  Building 3, 523

12:45pm
Lunch, exhibitor tables, poster sessions 
Reggie Lewis Center

Intersectionality and addiction

For more details on each session, please visit the program information page. For location in formation, please review the campus map. 

2:00pm
Plenary Presentation 1: How Can We Make Addiction Treatment More Appealing, Effective and Equitable for Black Patients? 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

2:35pm
Plenary Talk: Shooting the Messenger: Tales from industry interference in alcohol and drug research 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

3:05pm
Concurrent Breakout Sessions (See campus map for building locations.) 

• Navigating access to MOUD and harm reduction in carceral settings: Challenges and opportunities for advocacy 
  Building 3, 113G
• Encampment clearings and transitional housing: A qualitative analysis of encampment resident experiences
  Building 3, 113E 
• Clinical solutions to commercial sexual exploitation 
  Building 3, 450
• Impactful storytelling for personal growth and community advocacy and change 
  Building 3, 523
• Practicum on harm reduction for injectors, and people who smoke or sniff drugs; and practical techniques for drug testing or drug checking  
  Building 3, 113F
• Increasing access to employment for people with substance use disorder
  Media/Arts Building 301, Great Room 
• Opportunities for practicing trauma informed care when working with people with substance use disorders in clinical and community settings  
  Building 3, 121
• Presentation of oral abstracts: Intersectionality and addiction
  Building 3, 451

4:15pm
Plenary Presentation 2: Challenges and Best Practices for Working with Patients Who are Being Victimized/Trafficked
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium   

4:45pm
Plenary Presentation 3: Laying Out a Blueprint for Addressing Inequities in the Overdose Crisis  
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

5:25pm
Closing remarks
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

Policy and advocacy

For more details on each session, please visit the program information page. For location in formation, please review the campus map. 

7:30am
Registration/Breakfast
Reggie Lewis Center

8:30am
Keynote Address: Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD (Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

9:05am 
Plenary Panel 1: Reforming Involuntary Holds for People with Substance Use Disorders: Best Practices (Section 35 Reform)  
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

9:55am
Concurrent Breakout Sessions (See campus map for building locations.) 

• From the “War on Drugs” toO verdose Prevention Centers (OPCs) 
  Building 3, 113D
• Lessons Learned from International Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose Prevention 
  Building 3, 121
• Information Impacts Action: Debunking Myths About the Family and Recovery 
  Building 3, 113E
• Advocacy 101 for people with lived experience 
  Media/Arts Building 301, Great Room 
• Advocacy 101 for healthcare professionals 
  Building 3, 113G
• MedMoth: Stories of hope 
  Building 3, 113F
• Presentation of oral abstracts: Policy and advocacy
  Building 3, 532

11:00am
Break/Networking Opportunity 

11:35am
Plenary Panel 2: Mandatory Reporting Regulations During Pregnancy and the Impact on Health of Families (51A Reform) 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

12:20pm 
Plenary abstract presentation 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

1:00pm
Lunch, exhibitor tables, poster sessions 
Reggie Lewis Center

Harm reduction and housing

For more details on each session, please visit the program information page. For location in formation, please review the campus map. 

2:10pm
Plenary Talk: What is the Impact of Cannabis Use on Adolescents and Young Adults? 
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

2:45pm-3:45pm 
Concurrent Breakout Sessions (See campus map for building locations.) 

• Nuts and bolts of implementing Overdose Prevention Centers: best practices, and learning from Rhode Island 
  Building 3, 121
• Practicum: Wound care in the era of xylazine  
  Building 3, 113E
• Peer grief support group for direct service providers 
  Building 3, 532
• Publishing Addiction Research 101 
  Building 3, 113G
• Spirituality through cultural dimensions 
  Media/Arts Building 301, Great Room 
• Implementing contingency management 
  Building 3, 113D
• Practicum on harm reduction for injectors, and people who smoke or sniff drugs; and practical techniques for drug testing or drug checking 
  Building 3, 113F
• Presentations of oral abstracts: Harm reduction and housing
  Building 3, 521

3:55pm
Plenary talk: Eilene Davidson Grayken 
(This session is not being offered for CME credit.)
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

4:25pm
Plenary Panel 1: Challenges and Emerging Approaches in Harm Reduction 
(This session is not being offered for CME credit.)
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium 

5:05 PM
Closing remarks
Media/Arts Building, Auditorium