Amanda T. Fallin-Bennett, PhD, RN

Amanda Fallin-Bennett, PhD, RN, is a passionate advocate for harm reduction, recovery,
and evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders and tobacco. She is a co-
investigator on the NIDA funded University of Kentucky HEALing Communities Study (PI
Walsh) and the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN; PI Staton). Her role
in these studies is to oversee the implementation recovery coaching programs that are
designed to reduce opioid overdose death through linkage to and retention on medications
for opioid use disorder. Across these two large scale studies, she helped implemented
recovery coach led MOUD linkage and retention in over 80 agencies (e.g, syringe service
programs, harm reduction housing services, opioid treatment programs) across 20
Kentucky counties with high overdose rates. Dr. Fallin-Bennett is on the leadership team of
the Survivors Union of the Bluegrass, a University of Kentucky Community Advisory Board
made up of people who use drugs and people in non-abstinence based recovery.