Please join the Department of Health & Human Services, the Clark County Bar Association, the High Impact Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), local governments, community leaders and law enforcement agencies to:

• Learn updates on drug market trends

• Explain the increasing danger of evolving synthetic chemical supplies and resistance to overdose reversal medications

• Discuss why addiction rates and overdose rates continue to skyrocket

• Emphasize the need to focus on supply reduction to combat the opioid and overdose crisis

• Explain the impact of multiple overdoses and doctors’ difficulty to cope with the increasing number of patients facing irreversible brain damage and long term health issues

• Highlight model programs to improve how the criminal justice system interacts with people with substance use disorders and mental illness

• Highlight ways to protect communities from the appeal of illicit substance experimentation

• Showcase the role of youth, peer to per outreach in social media and drug use prevention marketing

11:30am: Lunch & Networking

12:00pm: Welcome & Introduction

12:30pm: Fireside Duo: Supply, Not Demand, is Driving the Fentanyl Crisis

1:30pm: Narcan is not the Answer: the Impact of Multiple Overdoses on Brain Health

2:30pm-3:30pm: Presentation: Miami’s Jail & Court Intercept Model for Mental Illness & Substance Use Disorder

              Judge Steven Liefman, Miami Dade County Eleventh Judicial Circuit

3:30-4:30pm Moderated discussion with Barbara Buckley

4:30pm Presentation: Protecting Communities from Illicit Substance Experimentation and Peer to Peer Youth Prevention Panel

              Moderated by Michelle Romero, City of Henderson Mayor

5:00pm Closing Remarks & Book Signing