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DPA Voices
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Приєднався 24 чер 2021
Here on DPA Voices, you can find a video archive of all DPA symposiums and conferences, press coverage on landmark drug policy reforms, and TV interviews with DPA staff. For more educational content, check out our main channel at ua-cam.com/users/DrugPolicyAlliance. The Drug Policy Alliance advocates that the regulation of drugs be grounded in evidence, health, equity, and human rights.
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Momentum Behind Overdose Prevention Centers: A Press Conference
Virtual press conference on the momentum behind overdose prevention centers as an evidence-based response to the overdose crisis in the United States.
Speakers:
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ, District 12)
Brandon Marshall, PhD (Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and the Founding Director of the People, Place & Health Collective)
Laura Thomas, MPP, MPH (Senior Director of HIV & Harm Reduction Policy at San Francisco AIDS Foundation)
Rebecca Blair (Director of Strategic Initiatives, Fair and Just Prosecution)
Kellen Russoniello, JD, MPH (Director, Public Health, Drug Policy Alliance.
Topics include the effectiveness of OPCs, where progress is being made in opening OPCs, and barriers to their expansion. The press conference is a complement to OPC Solidarity Week and in anticipation of national overdose awareness day.
Recorded: August 26, 2024
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Speakers:
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ, District 12)
Brandon Marshall, PhD (Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and the Founding Director of the People, Place & Health Collective)
Laura Thomas, MPP, MPH (Senior Director of HIV & Harm Reduction Policy at San Francisco AIDS Foundation)
Rebecca Blair (Director of Strategic Initiatives, Fair and Just Prosecution)
Kellen Russoniello, JD, MPH (Director, Public Health, Drug Policy Alliance.
Topics include the effectiveness of OPCs, where progress is being made in opening OPCs, and barriers to their expansion. The press conference is a complement to OPC Solidarity Week and in anticipation of national overdose awareness day.
Recorded: August 26, 2024
For more educational content, check out our main channel at ua-cam.com/users/DrugPolicyAlliance
The Drug Policy Alliance is building a world without the drug war where people who use drugs are supported, not punished. We’re building a world where drug policy is grounded in health, equity, and human rights. Join us: drugpolicy.org/.
Facebook: bit.ly/2OJS6OJ
Instagram: bit.ly/3rZmXoT
LinkedIn: bit.ly/3yhrKH6
TikTok: bit.ly/3JeLEZx
Twitter: bit.ly/2Qdm3XH
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Schedule III Is Not Enough: A Public Comment Workshop for the Movement to Decriminalize Marijuana
Переглядів 832 місяці тому
This spring, the Biden Administration's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) opened a time-limited public comment period for members of the American public to weigh in on their proposal to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the CSA. In this workshop, advocates and the public will learn how to submit a public comment to the DEA in support of ending federal marijuana crimina...
Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South: A Conversation with DPA & the Authors
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Deon Haywood, Laura McTighe, and Kassandra Frederique discuss “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.” Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise. For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their commun...
Plunder, Profit, & Punishment: Drug War Profiteers | S4: Curbing Influences of Drug War Profiteers
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The war on drugs is immensely profitable - for some entities - and in order to successfully end the drug war and its associated harms we have to follow the money to see who’s benefiting from systematically punitive responses. The accounting of the drug war typically focuses on the expenditures of systems and institutions in terms of enforcing drug prohibition. In this series, we will shift from...
Book Talk on "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools"
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With its signature “DARE to keep kids off drugs” slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by th...
Plunder, Profit, & Punishment: Drug War Profiteers | S3: Privatization & Profit in the War on Drugs
Переглядів 1273 місяці тому
The war on drugs is immensely profitable - for some entities - and in order to successfully end the drug war and its associated harms we have to follow the money to see who’s benefiting from systematically punitive responses. The accounting of the drug war typically focuses on the expenditures of systems and institutions in terms of enforcing drug prohibition. In this series, we will shift from...
Plunder, Profit, & Punishment: Drug War Profiteers | S2: Profiting from "Social Support Systems"
Переглядів 8444 місяці тому
The war on drugs is immensely profitable - for some entities - and in order to successfully end the drug war and its associated harms we have to follow the money to see who’s benefiting from systematically punitive responses. The accounting of the drug war typically focuses on the expenditures of systems and institutions in terms of enforcing drug prohibition. In this series, we will shift from...
Plunder, Profit, & Punishment: Drug War Profiteers | S1: Profiting from Treatment & Recovery
Переглядів 4634 місяці тому
The war on drugs is immensely profitable - for some entities - and in order to successfully end the drug war and its associated harms we have to follow the money to see who’s benefiting from systematically punitive responses. The accounting of the drug war typically focuses on the expenditures of systems and institutions in terms of enforcing drug prohibition. In this series, we will shift from...
Strengthening Policy Implications to Improve Impact of Drug Policy Research
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Many academics want their research to have real-world impact but may not know how best to craft research and manuscripts so that they are useful for policymakers and advocates. In this skills-building webinar, Dr. Noa Krawczyk discussed strategies that can help drive policy and practice-oriented research and improve the reach of findings and policy implications. She reviewed elements that can i...
Federal Marijuana Scheduling: How Rescheduling Fails Our Communities and What You Can Do About It
Переглядів 4025 місяців тому
DPA’s Cat Packer, Director of Drug Markets and Legal Regulation, gives a presentation explaining the process and legal consequences of rescheduling and descheduling marijuana at the federal level. DPA’s Maritza Perez Medina, Director of Federal Affairs, moderates a discussion with a panel of experts who explain the limited impacts of rescheduling marijuana and share predictions on what to expec...
Integrating People Who Sell Drugs into Public Health Research and Intervention
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Public health’s commitment to evidence-based policies and interventions has gained renewed significance in the “post-truth” era of MAGA-style politics in the United States. However, many scholars and service providers remain ignorant to some of the key limitations of the evidence they rely on to conduct their work. In the field of harm reduction, the most significant restriction narrowing the s...
Press Conference on Marijuana Decriminalization and Communities of Color (2/28/24)
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DPA hosted a press conference to urge the Biden Administration to keep its promise to decriminalize marijuana by descheduling it. During this virtual event, advocates and experts corrected the record on what marijuana rescheduling would mean for communities of color. Speakers: Maritza Perez Medina, Director of Federal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance, Cat Packer, Director of Drug Markets and Legal...
Developing Reciprocal Research Partnerships with Long-Exploited Communities
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Research teams increasingly include community consultants and advisory boards in their research to ensure it is more responsive to communities. Little of this work has been applied to Black people who use drugs, who are being disproportionately impacted by the overdose crisis. This presentation will discuss lessons learned from St. Louis’s CENTER Initiative, a community-academic partnership aim...
Publishing Qualitative Research on Substance Use: Guidelines for Researchers
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Substance use research journals, like journals in a number of other disciplines, are more likely to publish studies that use quantitative research methods. This often makes it very difficult for qualitative and mixed methods researchers to find journals where they can publish their findings. This bias in the peer-review and publication process has far-reaching implications because it can limit ...
Compassion First: a Primer on Stigma, Treatment and Harm Reduction | Dr. Sarah Wakeman
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Dr. Wakeman's presentation was delivered as the keynote address for the Vermont Reimagining Drug Policy conference on November 9, 2023 Sarah Wakeman, MD is the Senior Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham, Medical Director for the Mass General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative, program director of the Mass General Addiction Medicine fellowship, and an Asso...
Vermont Reimagining Drug Policy Conference 2023
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Vermont Reimagining Drug Policy Conference 2023
Conducting and Communicating Research on Overdose Prevention Centers in the US
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Conducting and Communicating Research on Overdose Prevention Centers in the US
Pregnancy & Overdose: The Roles of Harm Reduction, Healthcare & Criminalization
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Pregnancy & Overdose: The Roles of Harm Reduction, Healthcare & Criminalization
Book talk | Towards Bodily Autonomy: A Healing Justice Anthology Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
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Book talk | Towards Bodily Autonomy: A Healing Justice Anthology Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
Funding and Sustaining Community Driven Drug Policy Research
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Funding and Sustaining Community Driven Drug Policy Research
Housing First: Efficacy, Limitations, and Future Directions | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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Housing First: Efficacy, Limitations, and Future Directions | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
Drug Possession Decriminalization in Portugal and Oregon | Drug Decriminalization Briefing Series
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Drug Possession Decriminalization in Portugal and Oregon | Drug Decriminalization Briefing Series
Drug Possession Decriminalization and Public Health | Drug Decriminalization Briefing Series
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Drug Possession Decriminalization and Public Health | Drug Decriminalization Briefing Series
Drug Checking as Harm Reduction: Responding to the drug supply | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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Drug Checking as Harm Reduction: Responding to the drug supply | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
The Role of Researchers and Media in Responding to Drug Panics | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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The Role of Researchers and Media in Responding to Drug Panics | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
Virtual Briefing: How the Lifetime SNAP/TANF Drug Conviction Ban Continues to Harm Families
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Virtual Briefing: How the Lifetime SNAP/TANF Drug Conviction Ban Continues to Harm Families
Lessons Learned from the U.S.’s First Sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers
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Lessons Learned from the U.S.’s First Sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers
Against Rehabilitation: Outlaw Healing & Carceral-Therapeutic State | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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Against Rehabilitation: Outlaw Healing & Carceral-Therapeutic State | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
Risk & Violence: Offering a New Paradigm for Public Safety | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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Risk & Violence: Offering a New Paradigm for Public Safety | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
Book Talk with Valena Beety, Author of Manifesting Justice | Drug Researchers' Roundtable
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Book Talk with Valena Beety, Author of Manifesting Justice | Drug Researchers' Roundtable