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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
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“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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
DPA's video series, Matters of Substance, breaks down important drug policy concepts in under 60 seconds. Watch and learn in just a minute.
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Report
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The U.S. is in the throes of a deadly overdose crisis that claimed almost 70,000 lives in 2018. Of those, around 30,000 deaths involved synthetic opioids like… Read More