
Jessica
Eaddy,
MSW
Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention; Skaggs School of Pharmacy
CO,
United States
Jessica Eaddy is the Senior Program Manager at the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at CU Anschutz Medical Campus. She manages the Provider Education and Harm Reduction Work Groups after serving as the External Relations Strategist for 5 years. She obtained her Masters of Social Work (MSW) and Certificate in Substance Abuse Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University. She has over 15 years of experience researching, treating, and implementing evidence-based solutions for problematic substance use in both clinical and public health settings.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This presentation describes an innovative and replicable opportunity to incorporate naloxone training into interprofessional education curricula. The impact of these trainings includes improved knowledge, clinical skill acquisition, and appreciation of interprofessional collaboration as a means of addressing key ethics and health equity challenges of the opioid epidemic.