Trump’s Funding Cuts Jeopardize Fentanyl Overdose Prevention and Recovery
Q&A: How do Trump's and Congress's proposed federal funding cuts threaten overdose treatment access and other health services?
Q&A: How do Trump's and Congress's proposed federal funding cuts threaten overdose treatment access and other health services?
Leading advocacy organizations detail the Hochul administration mismanagement and present roadmap for fixing cannabis law implementation.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Halt Fentanyl Act. This counterproductive bill would permanently schedule all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I, blocking potential health research and creating new mandatory minimum sentences for fentanyl-related substances.
Today, President Biden demonstrated to Americans that justice delayed doesn’t have to mean injustice forever. These 2,500 individuals faced years, in many cases decades, of imprisonment because of the deeply flawed, racist, and draconian drug laws that politicians continue to perpetuate to this day.
After many years, overdose deaths are finally going down because of public health solutions. Dr. Sheila Vakharia, DPA’s deputy director of Research and Academic Engagement, has been researching recent drops in overdose deaths. We sat down with her to learn more, including what we and our elected leaders can do to save lives.
President Biden’s historic actions today acknowledge what Americans have long known: that our country’s practice of doling out lengthy prison sentences to people for drug offenses has put lives at risk, broken families apart, and wasted billions of dollars.
Orgs to Hochul: Leadership Must Change to Reflect Expertise in Cannabis, Economic Market Development, and Regulatory Licensing
This executive order is a model for how administrations can use their authority to transform federal marijuana policies to improve the lives of everyday people — rather than just improving profits for marijuana corporations.
Overdose deaths are preventable, but criminalization is standing in the way of saving lives. Effective solutions center support, not punishment. Our Executive Director Kassandra Frederique interviews Dr. Kim Sue, addiction medicine physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
Proposition 36 will turn back the clock on a health approach to drug policy, imposing lengthy prison sentences on people in crisis and defunding evidence-based treatment