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DPA Podcast Episode 29: Imprisonment and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19: DPA's Mary Sylla Explains the Risks
In her previous work as a civil rights attorney during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, DPA Senior Staff Attorney Mary Sylla saw firsthand the lack of adequate healthcare available to people who are incarcerated. To better… Read More
Video
First of All: Why We Cope
“Taboo” issues like problematic drug use, sexual abuse, trauma, bullying and victimization, showing vulnerability, and enduring racism, sexism, homo- and transphobias – are common societal and structural challenges… Read More
Letter
Coalition Letter to the CDC Calling for Them to Adopt Decarceration & Expanded Health Care Access in Guidance to Slow Spread of COVID-19
Drug Policy Alliance, in partnership with JusticeLA and Doctors for Cannabis Regulation (DFCR), sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)—signed by 117 other organizations and 579 individual… Read More
Video
First of All: How Drugs Work
There’s no inherent moral value in drugs, but morality plays a major role in the delivery of drug education, (mis)perceptions about drugs and drug users, and the policy decisions and politicians make.  This… Read More
Video
First of All: What is Harm Reduction?
Decades of associating the term “harm reduction” with injection drug use often leaves adults and educators baffled about how the concept is applied in a classroom setting.  Consider comprehensive sex ed as an… Read More
Letter
Coalition Letter to Governors in States with Medical Cannabis Programs
Governor Larry Hogan, Chair Governor Andrew Cuomo, Vice Chair Members, Executive Committee National Governors Association 444 N. Capitol St NW, Ste. 267 Washington, D.C. 20001   Re:  EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION… Read More
Report
The Santa Fe Plan: A Municipal Public Health and Safety Approach to Alcohol and Other Drugs
This report grows out of a recognition that the City of Santa Fe, despite being a national leader in many ways, could do better in its response to alcohol and drug use. Communities of all sizes across the United States… Read More
Letter
Sign On to Open Letter from Researchers, Academics, Clinicians, and Public Health Organizations Endorsing Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill
Join us in improving public health by calling for an end to federal marijuana prohibition. Add your name to our open letter below to publicly endorse the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement (MORE) Act… Read More
Letter
Nearly 70 Organizations Send Letter to Congress Outlining Concerns with Extending DEA Fentanyl Scheduling
The Drug Policy Alliance signed this letter along with nearly 70 other organizations representing civil rights, criminal justice, faith and drug policy communities to the House of Representatives outlining concerns with… Read More
Video
Matters of Substance
DPA's video series, Matters of Substance, breaks down important drug policy concepts in under 60 seconds. Watch and learn in just a minute. Got a suggestion for a future video? Email us at mos@drugpolicy.org and… Read More