Join us to discuss the risk factors associated with isolation, how isolation leads to the use of substances, and how that use of substances leads to further isolation. We will discuss some protective and preventive strategies we can implement when our normal modes of prevention are unavailable to us, like during the social distancing procedures of COVID 19. After Leslie Clark, Executive Director of the Portland Recovery Community Center, speaks to these issues, we will have a conversation where participants will be encouraged to connect around the topics discussed. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, offer resources and strategies they are using, and find connection during a time our whole society is facing isolation.