Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds: "From Policy to Practice: Implementing a State-Sanctioned OPC and Evaluating Its First Year of Operations"

The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Miriam Harris, MD, MSc, and Ashley Perry as guest speakers for Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on September 22, 2026.

This event will be held in a virtual format.

Title: From Policy to Practice: Implementing a State-Sanctioned OPC and Evaluating Its First Year of Operations

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe what an overdose prevention center (OPC) is and does, and its role in the context of the US overdose crises.
2. Identify overdose‑prevention implementation strategies by learning about the RI OPC implementation experience.
3. Apply principles of compassionate, minimally invasive overdose response by learning about the RI OPC approach.

Addiction Medicine Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM