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Join the Addiction Policy Forum. and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) on Thursday, July 22 at 3-4:30 PM (ET) for the second webinar in our series on COVID-19 and addiction.

Speakers include:

  • Dr. Kristie Clark, MD, MSCR, FAAP, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Dr. Ken Shatzkes, Senior Program Officer at the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
  • Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Colorado
  • Jessica Hulsey, founder and CEO of the Addiction Policy Forum.
Speakers will be discussing CDC's recent addition of substance use disorder (SUD) to the list of medical conditions that can make people more likely to get severely ill from COVID-19. This addition highlights the importance for individuals with SUD and their caregivers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

CDC's List of Certain Medical Conditions and Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness

Thursday, July 22, 2021
3-4:30 PM (ET)

Register
Addiction Policy Forum and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) have launched a team of COVID Vaccine Navigators who can help individuals with an active substance use disorder, people in recovery, practitioners or family members impacted by addiction determine when and where they can get vaccinated against COVID-19 and answer questions about COVID-19 vaccines.

Questions? Contact Haley Tenney at htenney@addictionpolicy.org.
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