Lead - Lessons Learned from International Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose Prevention; Panelist - Nuts and bolts of implementing Overdose Prevention Centers: best practices, and learning from other states
Dr. Miriam Harris is an addiction expert at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She is the medical consultant for Rhode Island's first safe consumption space. Her research interests focus on the intersection of women’s health and substance use including increasing sexual, reproductive, and HIV prevention services in substance use treatment spaces; substance use treatment while pregnant and parenting; and gender-responsive harm reduction. Dr. Harris provides community-based methadone treatment and attends the general medicine units and the Addiction Consult Service at Boston Medical Center.