Maine Quality Counts Podcast

Objective: The objective and purpose is that attendees will have a greater understanding of opioid use disorder, including overdose prevention and recognition, use of naloxone, and laws pertaining to naloxone. Speaker: Zoe Odlin-Platz Zoe has been working in harm reduction since 2009. She is a Community Health Promotion Specialist with the City of Portland’s Public Health Division and oversees the daily operations of the Portland Needle Exchange Program. Zoe helped to implement both a community sharps box campaign and a naloxone distribution protocol. In 2012, Zoe helped form I AM HERE Outreach Team, which is volunteer run and does street-based needle exchange, harm reduction, overdose response education and safe sharps disposal. This team is responsible for organizing the International overdose Awareness March and Vigil that is held each year in Portland. Zoe is a co-founder of the Maine Harm Reduction Alliance and chairs the education committee and sits on the Overdose Prevention Task Force for the City of