The world that Shakespeare created in the comedic play Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with enchantment, joy, love, transformation, magic, and a belief that anything can happen. The midsummer world that we live in is filled with pain, trauma, and inequities and it is tempting to lose hope with the belief that nothing can change. 

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today, I still have a dream.” Martin Luther King Jr.

In the January issue of the PTTC Post, we celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King with the 2023 theme set by the King Center of  “It Starts with Me: Cultivating a Beloved Community Mindset to Transform Unjust Systems.” We have reached the mid-point of the year and it is time - not for despair - but for revitalizing and re-establishing our goal of transforming unjust systems.

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Explore the unfortunate rise of xylazine, a veterinary drug unintended for human use. This non-classified drug has raised serious concerns about its impact on users' health.

Discover the timeline of how xylazine entered the street drug supply chain and its effects on the central nervous system. Symptoms include drowsiness, slowed breathing, decreased heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and potential amnesia.

Get informed! Read the full brief now to gain valuable insights into the presence of xylazine and the need for increased awareness. Click here to access the complete brief.

📚 New Curriculum 📯 : Introduction to Prevention Core Competencies for Prevention Professionals professionals.

The course will introduce practitioners to the essentials of substance use and misuse prevention. It is based on the Prevention Core Competencies published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The six-module, self-paced course provides a foundation for service delivery based on prevention science and evidence-based practices. It strengthens the understanding of effective planning and implementation and encourages the pursuit of more specialized training and professional development.

You MUST complete all 6 modules to receive a certificate of completion and credit for finishing the course. 

Visit PTTC’s e-learning platform HealtheKnowledge.org to enroll in the course.

Join us for the first-ever Syndemic Solutions Summit

The PTTC Network National Coordinating Office is proud to partner with our colleagues across the public health spectrum on the first-of-its-kind summit focused on syndemic solutions for some of our nation's most critical epidemics. 

Seats are selling quick at the Syndemic Solutions Summit, hosted by the Collaborative to Advance Health Services at the University of Missouri Kansas City. This inaugural event will be held on July 26-27, 2023 in Kansas City, MO. The day-and-a-half summit  will focus on discussing and generating solutions for syndemic approaches to end the intertwined health conditions of five epidemics: HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis, Substance Use Disorders and Mental health, and Reproductive and Sexual Health.