The Center for Prisoner Health receives video award

PROVIDENCE – The 35th Telly Awards has named The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital a 2014 Online Video Bronze Telly Award winner for the video “Staying Alive on the Outside.” The award is for excellence in video and television.

The 19-minute instructional video on how to prevent, identify signs of, and respond to opioid overdose was part of an intervention for individuals within 30 days of release from incarceration who reported using drugs or having family or friends who are active drug users. The individuals were provided naloxone at release.

“It is important to focus on individuals leaving incarceration who report using drugs themselves and/or having family or friends who are active drug users, because overdose is the primary reason for deaths post release,” said Dr. Josiah Rich, director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital and principal investigator of the study.

Along with Traci Green, of the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Rhode Island Hospital Injury Prevention Center, the research team worked with a documentary filmmaker, former inmates, and family and friends of overdose victims to create the video.

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The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, based in The Miriam Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases, seeks to advance the health and human rights of prisoners and other populations through research, education and advocacy.

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