First Responders Crisis Intervention Webcast

Description:

A live recorded webcast produced by Entertainment Industries Council (EIC) with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on the topic of first responders in the opioid overdose epidemic. Our executive director, Ginny Atwood Lovitt joins the panel to give her perspective as a naloxone overdose reversal instructor.

Topics include: What is being done right vs. areas for improvement, personal accounts from a physician, issues law enforcement officers are facing, the role of emergency departments in addressing the epidemic, and more.

Moderator:

Patrick Krill, J.D. , LL.M, MA Attorney, Clinician, and director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Legal Professionals Program.

Panelists:

Ginny Atwood Lovitt, Master Naloxone Instructor, Executive Director of The Chris Atwood Foundation

Dr. Dave Milzman, MD, Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Mark Parrino, M.P.A President of American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD)