This report presents common motivations for stimulant use, the most noteworthy harms associated with stimulant use, and the ways in which various public policies can be tailored to address both.
Contingency management is a highly effective model of substance use disorder treatment that involves providing incentives for behavioral outcomes aligned with treatment goals.
While there are many equity-based considerations that must be included in any effort to legalize marijuana, this resource focuses exclusively on ways to lessen the immigration-related harms of marijuana criminalization.
Santa Fe can be a leader in supporting the health and wellness of its residents by taking action on locally based solutions and interventions in collaboration with its community partners and residents.
This questionnaire should be used as part of community-based research with people who use drugs, some who use SCS and some who do not use SCS. The goal was a questionnaire that would take about 10 minutes to administer in a face-to-face interview.
As overdose deaths rise throughout the region and the nation, policymakers from across the political spectrum have joined law enforcement leaders to declare that we cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.
Legislators have dusted off the drug war playbook and proposed a variety of new punitive measures including new mandatory minimum sentences, homicide charges, involuntary commitment, expanded powers for prosecutors and more. These efforts repeat the mistakes that epitomize the failed war on drugs, while undermining efforts to reform our criminal justice system and pursue a public health approach to drug use.
Our current approach to drug sales has failed. We should address drug-involvement, including most sales, outside of the failed apparatus of criminalization. We should also reduce the harms of drug distribution and repair the harm of the criminal legal system’s discriminatory response to the drug trade.
In March 2018, the Drug Policy Alliance led a delegation of 70 U.S. advocates to Portugal to learn from its health and human-centered approach to drug use. The trip provided an opportunity for drug policy reform advocates to appreciate how effective a dramatically different approach to drugs can be.
A Municipal Drug Strategy is based on two key premises. First, that a punitive, criminal justice-driven response to people who are involved with drugs fails to meet the needs and respect the rights of these individuals, their families, and their communities. Second, that those who are closest to the harm and suffering arising from a flawed drug policies and problematic drug use are best placed to identify and implement solutions.
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