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Easier to Get Heroin Than Help: Shifting the Discourse on U.S. Drug Policy and Practice SARAH ABRUZZINI; BIOMEDICAL; DR. ANDREA HILL UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA https://www.seekpng.com/ipng/u2q8e6y3w7i1r5t4_spilled-pill-bottle-png-tablet/


  1. Easier to Get Heroin Than Help: Shifting the Discourse on U.S. Drug Policy and Practice SARAH ABRUZZINI; BIOMEDICAL; DR. ANDREA HILL UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA https://www.seekpng.com/ipng/u2q8e6y3w7i1r5t4_spilled-pill-bottle-png-tablet/

  2. Portugal's Radical Approach... • Acceptance of addiction as condition needing medical care • Decriminalization of drug use and possession of small quantities • Focus on treatment and harm reduction • Civil fines and penalties for deterrence https://www.statista.com/chart/20616/key-developments-since-portugal-decriminalized-drugs/

  3. Problems in the current U.S. system • Punitive system --> Mass incarceration • Compulsory treatment --> Focus on abstinence • Mundipharma --> global spread https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-mass-incarceration

  4. Meeting the experts... Dr. . Paul La Lakosky, , Ph.D .D. with the Tacoma Needle Exchange Mark Cooke, Policy Advocate with the ACLU Dr. . David Sapienza, , MD with Bupe Path thways Tiarra Dearbone, Project Manager with LE LEAD

  5. Success and expansion of groups like LEAD Harm reduction as effective approach Reasons for hope... Infrastructure in place for shift Public opinion on the cusp of change

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