Friend,

The war on drugs has always been a public health crisis that impacts everyone and touches so many aspects of society. COVID-19 has simply magnified the drug war’s pervasive harms and made the case for reform more necessary than ever before.
 
Our recent [link removed] online discussion series connecting the dots between COVID-19 and drug policy [link removed] featured seven illuminating conversations with more than 40 speakers and over a thousand participants. You can watch the recordings here: [link removed].
 
The series and topics coincide with DPA's COVID-19 policy recommedations [link removed] which focus on improving substance use disorder treatment, access to harm reduction services, criminal legal system reforms, reducing jail and prison populations, and supporting people with healthcare and social services upon re-entry.

These discussions have highlighted the urgent need to act quickly but also be more aspirational with our policy agendas. We shouldn’t settle and we need to keep advocating for safe consumption sites, safe supply, all drug decriminalization, and other policies that will not just end criminalization but that will also promote the health and safety of people who use drugs.

Our communities are living through multiple pandemics: the COVID-19 pandemic, the drug overdose crisis, and the epidemic of police violence. Our work at DPA is to help mitigate all of those harms.

The work we do at DPA is not just the work to end the drug war but to fight for economic justice, health justice, and racial justice. We can only accomplish this by working together across multifaceted issues, communities, and movements. Please consider a gift to support this work. [link removed]  

These eye-opening discussions covered a wide range of topics but all of them uplifted the importance of the work we do to decarcerate, decriminalize, and dignify the lives of people who use drugs and the lives of everyone touched by the drug war.

Sincerely,

Lindsay LaSalle
Managing Director, Policy
Drug Policy Alliance


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