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How Should Public Money Be Spent?
Drug Policy Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue?
This is part a free series being held over three Wednesdays, February 13, 20, and 27.
Facilitator: Stephen Owen, UBC Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations
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What Do We Tell the Kids?
Drug Policy Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue?
This is part a free series being held over three Wednesdays, February 13, 20, and 27.
Facilitator: Stephen Owen, UBC Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations
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Where Should Public Health End and Criminal Justice Begin?
Drug Policy Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue?
This is a free series held over three Wednesdays, February 13, 20, and 27.
Facilitator: Stephen Owen, UBC Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations
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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: Women & HIV
This one day training will provide an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the United States and globally, with a special emphasis on the disproportionate impact on women of color. The facilitators will engage participants in an interactive format that will include a review of the epidemic, treatment issues and prevention strategies, including social and economic barriers to both, and gaps in the research and services. At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to apply what they learned in their own work settings.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: Opiate Overdose - Build Your Skills & Knowledge - Get the Scoop!
Heroin (and other opioid) overdoses are a common cause of death among users, yet these deaths are often preventable through education, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and when possible, through the administration of naloxone (Narcan). In this workshop, participants will start by learning the essentials of preventing opioid overdose deaths including prevention, recognition, and action. Participants will receive certification as Trained Overdose Responders and become qualified to train heroin or opioid users and colleagues at their own facilities how to prevent an overdose. Please note that this training is geared towards individuals who will be participating in or setting up their own Opiate Overdose Prevention training progam in their agencies. Participants will learn about how to implement a NYSDOH-approved program with support from the Harm Reduction Coalition.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: The Practice of Harm Reduction with Dually-diagnosed Clients: Substance Use & Mental Illness
Beginning with an overview of mental disorders, this workshop will focus specifically on clients with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. This workshop will emphasize the application of harm reduction principles in identification and intervention along a continuum of risk. The training will also guide service providers in determining effective harm reduction responses that are attentive to the realities of clients' lives, provider skill level, and agency mandate.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Training: Pregnant and Parenting Drug Using Women - The Power of Image & Judgement in Our Work
The image of the pregnant and parenting drug-using woman has been used for many purposes in our society. Those images actually serve to hurt the women and families that many of us work to support. This can also cause us to carry our own prejudices that can hinder our own best practices and bring about personal stress in our places of employment. This workshop will examine those images, our own prejudices, and we will begin to look at some solutions to avoid buying into common myths and personal beliefs (sometimes from our own histories). By doing this examination, we can better assist women who are struggling with drug use while being pregnant and/or parenting. This workshop will also look at the broader policy implications that focus on supporting pregnant drug-using women instead of criminalizing or shaming their behavior.
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2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference
The International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the world's principal gathering of people who believe the war on drugs is doing more harm than good. No better opportunity exists to learn about drug policy and to strategize and mobilize for reform.
In The Trenches
Marijuana policy at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference
[Courtesy of MPP]Â
I hope Iâll see you at the 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference in New Orleans next week! MPP is a co-host of the conference, which is run by the Drug Policy Alliance.
Following is a brief listing of marijuana policy reform sessions at the conference. Please visit the conference Web site for detailed descriptions and presenters.
Thursday, December 6
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Reefer Madness: Cannabis Law Enforcement Around the U.S.
Friday, December 7
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Marijuana & Health
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Medical Marijuana Implementation State-to-State
4:30 - 6:00 pm
National Marijuana Policy: New Directions
Saturday, December 8
10:00 - 11:30 am
Northern Exposure: Cutting-Edge Medical Cannabis Research and Legal Reform in Canada
12:00 - 1:30 pm
The DEA War on Medical Marijuana
I and many others from the MPP staff will be in attendance, and we are looking forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
Blog
If I Was You, I'd Kill Myself
Sue is awaiting transportation to the Taycheedah Women's Prison in Wisconsin from the Eau Claire, Wi. county jail. She has been in the jail since her July arrest. She was arrested after an informer gave her money to buy drugs. At least that's what the informer says; Sue says he was paying her back money she had lent him since they had been such good friends. She never bought any drugs, however; she was arrested with nothing but the money, heading home. Apparently the agents were worried she would just keep their money. Or maybe they were in a hurry to get home. Apparently only they know.
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Peeing for Profit
Peeing for Profit
Who would ever think that pissing in a bottle would become such a huge enterprise, with several corporations getting in on the action? But thatâs what has happened. And we have the âwar on drugsâ to thank for this.
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