Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Speaker: Dr. Eileen Barrett

Title: Leveling up our harm reduction approach 

Format: Virtual

• Practice considering the risks and potential harms associated with patient use of alcohol, kratom, tianeptine, cannabis, and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7OH), and identify challenges clinicians face in staying current with established and emerging substances. 
• Adopt harm reduction principles and communication strategies that support safer use while fostering trust and engagement with patients who continue to use legal substances.  
• Develop practical, patient-centered approaches to reduce substance-related harms and integrate harm reduction strategies into everyday clinical practice.