First Responder, First Referral: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

This conference workshop presentation provides an overview of the NADCP four-day training for law enforcement designed to provide law enforcement officers with key tools to build an agency-wide understanding of diversion programs, develop standard engagement protocols, and improve public safety outcomes for jurisdictions. For law enforcement working in communities impacted by the opioid epidemic, it is critical that they are able to identify standard operating procedures, recognize the importance of both the multidisciplinary approach and the implementation of community policing in addition to the impact of vicarious trauma within the law enforcement community.