Harm Reduction For All A Life Saving Cost Effective Intervention

An overview of evidence-based principles, strategies, and interventions that should be offered to all persons who use drugs or have been diagnosed with substance use disorders.

Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH, is a faculty physician and Opioid Crisis Educator at Mountain Area Health Education Center Family Residency Program in Asheville, NC. He also serves as an associate clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is the principal investigator for the grant funded project “Building Access to Care Through Community Health Centers to Treat Opioid Use Disorder / Establishment of North Carolina Regional Addiction Medicine Programs.”

He completed medical school and public health school at Tulane University and completed a residency in family medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. He worked in the South Bronx for 5 years following residency, providing primary care for adults and children, as well as for adults living with HIV. He also served as medical director for Montefiore Project INSPIRE, a primary care based Hepatitis C treatment program. His clinical and academic work focus on HIV, Hepatitis C, transgender health, substance use disorders, marginalized populations, and population health. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Ostrach is an applied medical anthropologist and community-based substance use/harm reduction and reproductive health researcher. Dr. Ostrach’s research in the past several years has encompassed access to perinatal substance use treatment; the impact of municipal, law enforcement, and health care policies on drug users’ health; and attitudes toward evidence-based models of harm reduction in rural areas. Dr. Ostrach collaborates with several community syringe access programs in Western North Carolina.

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