August 2019 Blogs

'Giving a Tomorrow' for International Overdose Awareness Day

August 30, 2019
by Lt. Cmdr. Samantha Gustafson, PharmD, advanced practice pharmacist at Red Lake Hospital and IHS Heroin, Opioids, and Pain Efforts Committee's Harm Reduction Safe Syringe Services Workgroup lead

International Overdose Awareness Day is an event held on August 31, focused on raising awareness about prescription opioid overdose risk, providing information on available community services, and preventing drug-related harm. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends that have lost ... Continue reading

IHS Signs New Agreement Supporting Information-Sharing to Tribal Organization

August 23, 2019
by Lisa Neel, Director of the IHS Tribal Epidemiology Center Program

The Indian Health Service and the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center recently signed an agreement supporting a new information-sharing project.

The mission of the Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center is to collaborate with American Indian tribes ... Continue reading