Spring 2027

Community, Culture & Healing: Addressing Substance Use in American Indian/alaska Native Populations

Examines historical trauma, public health, and addiction treatment in AI/AN communities, focusing on OUD, culturally responsive care, and integrating traditional healing with evidence-based strategies.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the historical and intergenerational trauma that contributes to addiction disparities among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations and explain how these legacies inform culturally responsive care.

  • Interpret and apply epidemiological data and public health strategies to address opioid use disorder (OUD) as a priority within the Indian Health Service and Tribal health systems.

  • Evaluate evidence and practice-based strategies for opioid use disorder (OUD) prevention, treatment, recovery and hard reduction, highlighting community led initiatives by Tribal governments and organizations.

  • Summarize the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in addiction treatment.

  • Integrate Indigenous traditional healing as evidence and practice-based approaches to care.

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

MEDICINE 931

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Explore the intersection of historical trauma, public health, and addiction treatment within American Indian and Alaska Native (AN) communities. Examine how historical and intergenerational trauma contribute to disparities in substance use and inform approaches to culturally responsive care. Review epidemiological data and public health strategies used to address opioid use disorder (OUD) as a key priority in the Indian Health Service and Tribal health systems. Evidence-based prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction approaches will be evaluated in the context of Tribal communities. Emphasis is placed on the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of traditional AN healing practices and community-based approaches in addiction treatment.

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Topics

  • Historical and intergenerational trauma and its contribution to substance use disparities.
  • Epidemiological data and public health strategies for opioid use disorder in IHS and Tribal health systems.
  • Evidence-based prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction approaches in Tribal communities.
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration and integration of traditional AN healing practices in addiction treatment.

Skills

  • Analyze historical and intergenerational trauma's role in substance use disparities and inform culturally responsive care.
  • Interpret epidemiological data and public health strategies for addressing opioid use disorder in IHS and Tribal systems.
  • Evaluate evidence-based prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction approaches in Tribal contexts.
  • Integrate interdisciplinary collaboration and traditional AN healing practices into addiction treatment.

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Recorded 2026-10-14

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