Xylazine and HIV in the Era of Synthetic Street Drugs

Program details

Presenter: Fernando Montero, PhD

Provides 1.00 hours of CE/CME credit (Presented: January 17, 2024; Reviewed February 14, 2024; Expires February 14, 2027)

Online CME credit fee: Free

Registration information

Step One - Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning Registration:

Please follow the link to register with the Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning program. In order to continue funding and provide educational programming for health professionals around HIV/AIDS, we need all participants to register through PAETC-NV.

Step Two - UNR Med CME Login for receiving CME/CE credit:

This webinar requires you to login into the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education’s (UNR Med CME) website to complete your registration. If you do not have a UNR Med CME account, you will need to make one.

Once you have signed into the UNR Med CME websites, follow the instructions below to watch the webinar and collect your CME, CE, and pharmacy credit.

Instructions for receiving CME/CE credit:

  1. Click on the 'register now' button
  2. Click on the course to register
  3. After registration, you will click “begin the activity”
  4. YouTube will be embedded into the website
  5. Watch the YouTube video
  6. Click to claim credit
  7. Enter the activity code that was provided to you in the email confirmation
  8. Claim credit and generate the certificate

If you have any questions, please email us at paetcnv@med.unr.edu.

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Overview

The Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center-Nevada, in partnership with the Opioid Response Network, presents a virtual training program that will review the history of US street drug markets since the early 1990s to explain the emergence of xylazine, fentanyl, and crystal methamphetamine in regional markets formerly dominated by heroin and cocaine. It will examine the relationship between each of these newly prevalent synthetic substances and describe what we know so far about their impact on HIV and related comorbidities. Finally, it will assess how the public health impact of recent transformations to the US narcotics supply relates to the experience of drug consumption and the actual way that people use drugs in their everyday lives.

Objectives

Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe how the sudden expansion of xylazine, fentanyl, and crystal methamphetamine use is related to the history of US drug markets since 1990
  • Describe how each of these substances relate to one another in the experience of consumption and in their public health impact, including on HIV and drug overdose risk
  • Examine avenues for novel public health interventions to minimize the risk of HIV, drug overdose, and related comorbidities, as well as to regulate drug markets to make them less toxic and less economically exploitative for both people who use drugs and people who sell them

The Pacific AETC-NV offers engaging and interactive online learning opportunities to increase healthcare providers' knowledge and awareness of HIV and STI-related health topics. To view all session topics available, please click on Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning page for more online and on-demand learning opportunities.

Program faculty

Fernando Montero, PhD Chief T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies Department of Psychiatry Columbia University

Continuing Education Credit, Disclosures, and Sources