Psychedelics & Harm Reduction: Understanding hard reduction principles and how to apply them.

Описание: Understanding harm reduction and how its principles may be directly applied to psychedelic practices and therapy today.

Notes:
Evolution of Harm Reduction webinar via HRNA:    • Evolution of Harm Reduction_February 2020 ...  

Article - Beyond the Buzzword: A Concept Analysis of Harm Reduction: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31666...

Article - Emerging Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: Implications for Nursing Practice: http://www.jmhan.org/index.php/JMHAN/...

Webinar hosted by Dr. Pam Kryskow

Speakers:

Bryce Koch is a nurse who has experience in emergency medicine, mass-gathering medicine, harm reduction, and public health. Currently, he is the Central Canada Regional Representative for the Harm Reduction Nurses Association www.hrna-aiirm.ca

The Harm Reduction Nurses Association is a Canadian national organization with a mission to advance harm reduction nursing through practice, education, research, and advocacy. While in nursing school, Bryce co-founded Project Safe Audience (PSA). PSA is a harm reduction program that provides health services to the festival/rave population. Some of the services PSA provides are onsite drug checking, harm reduction supply distribution, psychedelic crisis intervention, and mental health services.

Bryce is currently pursuing his Masters of Nurse Practitioner with a focus on psychedelic medicine. In addition to this, he is receiving training from TheraPsil on the therapeutic use of psychedelics in palliative care.

Dominique Denis-Lalonde BN RN, (she/her) is a registered nurse and educator. Her graduate research focuses on exploring how harm reduction is conceptualized and applied. Dominique’s background is in harm reduction and safer drug use, HIV prevention, sexual health, LGBT health, and sex worker advocacy. Dominique has supported harm reduction efforts in a variety of roles and contexts including at large international festivals and with vulnerable populations in Calgary.

In 2020, she published a seminal article about the potential roles of nurses in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy, and in 2021 co-authored a piece about harm reduction nursing education with colleagues from the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. She has 2 kids, 1 cat, 6 chickens, and too many plants.