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The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization that seeks to advance policies that "reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies". [1]
Through the Drug Policy Alliance, the Lindesmith Library continues to distribute materials to community organizations seeking science-based information about drug use and misuse. The center was named after Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), a professor of sociology at Indiana University, who was a prolific writer on drug use and policy.
Kaltenbach, who will officially start her $200,000 per year job on Nov. 4, is the former director of the New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance. In that role, she advocated for drug decriminalization ...
This information is widely cited by drug policy officials, who have sometimes confused drug-related episodes—emergency department visits induced by drugs—with drug mentions. The Wisconsin Department of Justice claimed, "In Wisconsin, marijuana overdose visits in emergency rooms equal to heroin or morphine [sic] , twice as common as Valium."
Kassandra Frederique was born in 1986 () in Manhattan, New York to Haitian immigrant parents. [1] Frederique worked as the managing director of Policy Advocacy and Campaigns for the Drug Policy Alliance, and in September 2020, she became the executive director, proceeding Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno. [2]
Where buprenorphine has been adopted as part of public policy, it has dramatically lowered overdose death rates and improved heroin addicts’ chances of staying clean. In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved both buprenorphine (Subutex) and buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone) for the treatment of opiate dependence.
The Drug Policy Alliance, a New York-based non-profit organization was behind the measure [4] and the measure also received financial support from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. [5] The new law aimed to reverse racial disparities in policing, and was projected to reduce black arrests by 94%. [6] The new law came into effect on February 1, 2021 ...
As a part of the Marijuana Justice Coalition, [15] which looks to repair “the disproportionate harm faced by Black, brown, and low-income communities” as a result of federal drug policy, [16] and the Drug Policy Alliance, CNDP reformers successfully pushed for the passage of the MORE Act in both the 116th and 117th Congresses.