Statement on HHS’ New Guidelines Removing Barriers from Doctors to Prescribe Life-Saving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder msutton Fri, 2021-01-15 15:53 Fri, 01/15/2021 – 15:53
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Amid Spike in Overdose Deaths Exacerbated by Failed Response to Pandemic, Groups Send Letter Urging Biden Team to Focus on Harm Reduction and Abandon Criminalization Washington, D.C. – Over 200 drug policy, harm reduction, health care, and community based organizations from across the country today sent a letter to Rahul Gupta, Team Lead for the […]
Statement on Third Circuit Ruling Against Safehouse msutton Tue, 2021-01-12 16:49 Tue, 01/12/2021 – 16:49
Marijuana Legalization Central to Cuomo’s State of the State Address msutton Mon, 2021-01-11 13:47 Mon, 01/11/2021 – 13:47
Statement from DPA’s Melissa Moore: New York Has Opportunity to Lead by Passing Most Progressive Legalization Bill in U.S., Must Atone for Marijuana Arrest Crusade Harms New York, NY – Today, Governor Cuomo announced he will pursue legislation in 2021 to establish a legal market for marijuana in New York, which would effectively end marijuana […]
Washington, D.C. – This week, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Opioid Overdose Prevention Act of 2019” (B23-0054)—a bill that unanimously passed the D.C. Council earlier this month—into law. This omnibus bill includes language that removes criminal penalties for possession of drug paraphernalia for personal use and allows community-based organizations to distribute desperately […]
Washington, D.C. – This week, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Opioid Overdose Prevention Act of 2019” (B23-0054)—a bill that unanimously passed the D.C. Council earlier this month—into law. This omnibus bill includes language that removes criminal penalties for possession of drug paraphernalia for personal use and allows community-based organizations to distribute desperately […]
Statement on Congress Eliminating Barriers for People with Criminal Convictions from Accessing Federal Student Aid msutton Mon, 2020-12-21 16:18 Mon, 12/21/2020 – 16:18
December 18, 2020 – New York, NY – In response to new CDC provisional overdose counts (nearly 80,000) for the 12 months leading up to May 2020, which show an alarming increase in deaths and accounting for the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheila Vakharia, PhD, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic […]
New York, NY – In response to the National Institute of Health (NIH)’s Monitoring the Future 2020 results showing stable marijuana use and a decline in marijuana vaping among youth—Sheila Vakharia, PhD, Deputy Director of the Department of Research & Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), released the following statement: “Once again, another survey […]
