CSDE Affiliate Jenna van Draanen (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing) marked National Overdose Awareness Month (October) by discussing how overdose research has evolved over time to recognize overdose as a social issue and the value of harm reduction. van Draanen highlighted the creation of READU (Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use), a group made up of researchers, clinicians, and people with lived and living experience of substance use. READU is currently undertaking a study, Overdose Response Centering Inequity and Diversity, that looks at changes in emergency medical services (EMS) in King County, Washington.  The research team includes van Draanen, CSDE Affiliates Ohshue Gatanaga (Health Services), India Ornelas (Health Systems and Population Health), and Emily Williams (Health Services), as well as UW co-authors and community researchers.