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In episode seven of our Community based Solutions for Substance Use Challenges season.
In episode six of our community based solutions for Substance Use Challenges, Season Just Science sits down with Doctor Terry Kerns, substance abuse law enforcement coordinator of the Nevada Office of the Attorney General.
In episode three of our Community Based solutions for Substance Use Challenges season, Just Science sits down with Doctor Chris Delcher, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and director of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of Kentucky, to discuss how his team tracks community drug use through wastewater analysis. Much like analyzing a urine sample to determine what drugs an individual is using. Analyzing wastewater from a community offers insight into drug trends across an entire region of people.
In episode two of our Community-based Solutions for Substance Use Challenges season, Just Science sits down with Bill Barbour, Fatal Overdose Surveillance Program Manager at King County Medical Examiner’s Office, to discuss his team’s methods for rapid toxicology results after a suspected overdose death.
In episode one of our Community Based Solutions for Substance Use Challenges season just sat down with Doctor Samantha Tolliver, Chief Toxicologist for the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, or DC OCME, to discuss how their agency uses their Bureau of Justice Assistances Comprehensive Opioid Stimulant and Substance Use Program, or COSSUP, funding to improve their drug testing and analysis processes.
