Louise Vincent

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area United States

Naloxone Consultant, Health Educator at North Carolina Harm Redution Coalition

I recently completed my Master's Degree in Public Health at UNC-G. I will be continuing my education this fall and working for a small non-profit. Not only will I be developing, implementing and evaluating new programs for NC Syringe Access, I will begin and continue difficult conversations around drug laws in hopes to advance policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of drug use and drug prohibition. I am a public health educator whose specialties include Hepatitis C, HIV, overdose prevention and safer drug use programming with an emphasis on the stages of change. Providing low-threshold services to drug users who are not ready or able to quit using drugs is an important part ...