2023 NPN Conference Program - Flipbook - Page 17
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Workshop Session III
3B - Emerging Substance Misuse Issues in Youth and Young Adults: Findings from the North Carolina
Youth and Young Adult Prevention Survey, Melinda Pankratz, Jennifer Ross, Kathleen Egan, Kimberly
Wagoner, and Parissa Ballard
New substances or products can quickly rise to become among the most misused substance use products. It is critical to identify
and understand emerging substances and products, as well as what substances and products are used simultaneously. This
workshop will present data on emerging products and polysubstance use such as nicotine gummies, gums, lozenges or
dissolvables, 2.8% CBD, 2.7% Delta-8, Delta-10, or Delta-P, and 2.1% Kratom. We will present data on the prevalence of emerging
substance and polysubstance use, and how use differs by age, gender, other sociodemographic characteristics, and social
determinants of health and then identify implications for prevention, including how demographic differences in substance use
might inform culturally responsive prevention efforts.
3C - Advancing Prevention Science Training for Substance Use Professionals: A Curriculum Infusion
Package, Kathryn Bruzios and Brittany Cooper
This presentation aims to disseminate these tools to the workforce who train and employ substance use practitioners. We have
piloted new curriculum infusion tools in various educational degree programs (e.g., Addiction Services, Social Work). As a next
step in dissemination, this session will introduce the curriculum infusion tools and teach substance use professionals how to
implement these tools in their professional settings to enhance the prevention training of substance use prevention
practitioners.
3D - Student Athlete Prevention Program, Logan Reid
This presentation will discuss drug use for performance enhancement or injury coping among student athletes and an education
strategy involving student athletes, coaches and parents on the importance of healthy decisions regarding training and athletic
performance, training for coaches on their influence on student athletes, and 6-10 lesson discussions with student athletes, led
by coaches, to demonstrate the negative impact of drugs on performance, and the positive impact of healthy diet and exercise
on performance. These discussions are designed to be short, focus on science-based facts, and can be held in casual settings,
including locker rooms, on buses traveling to competitions, on fields and courts before/after practices. The outcomes realized
include changes in perceived risk of drug use for athletic performance enhancement; confidence in ability to achieve athletic
goals without using drugs; perceptions of peer tolerance; perceptions of coach attitude/tolerance; attitudes favorable to drug
use; athlete drug use rates; and fidelity measures for program implementation.
3E - You're Doing What? Merging Harm Reduction and Trauma Informed Care, Vicki Thomas
Focus on helping others understand the principles of Harm Reduction as defined by the National Harm Reduction Coalition and
how those connect with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Trauma Informed Care
principles. The presenter will define what Harm Reduction is, how each person practices Harm Reduction every day, and how
society has been practicing Harm Reduction for alcohol for quite some time. Substances addressed: opioids, specifically fentanyl,
and xylazine. We will discuss practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use,
how abstinence-based and top-down institutional approach to treatment and care isn’t the only option (especially for our young
people), how harm reduction saves lives and can also build lives and communities of care, including young people, and how
harm reduction is trauma informed and culturally competent.
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