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An update of our 2020 series, in which we spoke with physicians, researchers, and addicts about the root causes of the crisis — and the tension between abstinence and harm reduction. SOURCES:Gail D'Onofrio, professor and chair of emergency medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and chief of emergency services at Yale-New Haven Health.Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.Stephen Loyd, chief medical officer of Cedar Recovery and chair of the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council.Nicole O'Donnell, certified recovery specialist at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy.Jeanmarie Perrone, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.Eileen Richardson, restaurant manager. RESOURCES:“Toward Healthy Drug Policy in the United States — The Case of Safehouse,” by Evan D. Anderson, Leo Beletsky, Scott Burris, and Corey S. Davis (The New England Journal of Medicine, 2020).“Buprenorphine Deregulation and Mainstreaming Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder,” by Leo Beletsky, Kevin Fiscella, and Sarah E. Wakeman (JAMA Psychiatry, 2018).“Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Dependence,” by Gail D'Onofrio, Patrick G. O'Connor, Michael V. Pantalon, Marek C. Chawarski, Susan H. Busch, Patricia H. Owens, Steven L. Bernstein, and David A. Fiellin (JAMA, 2015).“Buprenorphine-Naloxone Therapy In Pain Management,” by Lucy Chen, Kelly Yan Chen, and Jianren Mao (National Institutes of Health, 2014).“Prevalence and Correlates of Street-Obtained Buprenorphine Use Among Current and Former Injectors In Baltimore, Maryland,” by Jacquie Astemborski, Becky L. Genberg, Mirinda Gillespie, Chris-Ellyn Johanson, Gregory D. Kirk, Shruti H. Mehta, Charles R. Schuster, and David Vlahov (U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2014).“The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin: Commercial Triumph, Public Health Tragedy,” by Art Van Zee (U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2009). EXTRAS:"Why Is the Opioid Epidemic Still Raging?" series by Freakonomics Radio (2024)."The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: 'We've Addicted an Entire Generation,'" by Freakonomics Radio (2020).“The Truth About the Vaping Crisis,” by Freakonomics Radio (2019).

In 2014, then-23 year-old Morgan Godvin sold a small amount of heroin to her friend and fellow drug user Justin DeLong who subsequently overdosed and died. Morgan was charged by the federal government for “drug delivery resulting in death” and served five years in prison––despite Justin's family pleading for leniency. Now out of prison and majoring in community health education at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Godvin is on a mission to raise awareness of the hyper-punitive rise of “drug induced homicide” prosecutions. She joins us this week along with special guest host Leo Beletsky, a professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, to discuss what activists are doing to push back against the latest trend in Tough on Drug Crime cruelty.

Episode 6: Health Professional Monitoring Programs This episode we are hosted by Zachary Siegel of Changing the Narrative and the Health in Justice Action Lab where we discuss physicians health programs and other professional monitoring programs. The panel consists of Health Professionals in Recovery hosts Sean Fogler and Bill Kinkle, Dr. Peter Grinspoon of Harvard University, and Leo Beletsky of Northeastern University School of Law. Links: Practicing What We Preach-Ending Physician Health Program Bans on Opioid-Agonist Therapy https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1907875 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/06/757990241/for-health-workers-struggling-with-addiction-why-are-treatment-options-limited https://khn.org/news/doctors-and-nurses-with-addictions-often-denied-a-crucial-recovery-option/ Witnessed Urine Drug Screens in Drug Treatment: Humiliating and Harmful https://filtermag.org/urine-screen-drug-treatment/ Twitter: Leo Beletsky @LeoBeletsky Zach Siegel @ZachWritesStuff Peter Grinspoon @Peter_Grinspoon Sean Fogler @sean_fogler Bill Kinkle @billkinkle

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, NACDL hosted an advocacy call on drug-induced homicide laws. Speakers included Valena Elizabeth Beety, Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, a new criminal justice center connecting research with policy reform; Leo Beletsky, Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, where he is the faculty director of the Health in Justice Action Lab; and Lindsey LaSalle, Managing Director, Public Health, Law and Policy at the Drug Policy Alliance. Background: On the books in many states and federally, drug-induced homicide laws have gained in popularity as the country deals with an increase in drug overdose deaths. Drug-induced homicide laws seek to hold drug distributors criminally responsible for overdose deaths. Believed to target major drug traffickers, these laws are actually resulting in friends, family members and romantic partners of overdose victims being charged for their death. According to a 2017 report by the Drug Policy Alliance, individuals charged with or prosecuted for drug-induced homicide increased by over 300 percent in six years, to 1,178 in 2016 from 363 in 2011. Racial disparities are present with a disproportionate number of charges being brought in cases where the victim is white and the dealer is a person of color. Racial bias is also evident in the gaping disparity of the sentences being handed down to drug-induced homicide defendants of color – a median of nearly nine years, compared to five years for white defendants. Resources: Health in Justice Action Lab  Drug-Induced Homicide Defense Toolkit Charging ‘Dealers’ with Homicide: Explained America’s Favorite Antidote: Drug-Induced Homicide in the Age of the Overdose Crisis "A Dose of Reality: Drug Death Investigations and the Criminal Justice System", The Champion The Overdose/Homicide Epidemic DIH Law Proliferation 2009 2019 map (video) DIH Law Proliferation 2009 2019 bar chart (video) Learn more about NACDL's State Criminal Justice Network. Monica L. Reid, Host.  Music I Will! Rise Above (Jared C. Balogh) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

On this episode Narcotica highlights a new project from the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University called Changing The Narrative, which aims to correct flawed narratives about drugs, debunked myths, old tropes, and stigmatizing language in mainstream media. The post Episode 22: Changing the Narrative with Maia Szalavitz and Leo Beletsky appeared first on Narcotica.

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) have exploded in popularity. In 2000, thirteen states used PDMPs; today, they exist in every state and Washington, D.C. These programs are ostensibly designed to respond to the opioid crisis by monitoring prescribed drugs and preventing abuse and doctor shopping. But increasingly, critics say, they are interfering with legitimate healthcare. Privacy advocates and some medical experts have demanded that states slow the rush to implement PDMPs and ask hard questions about law enforcement's involvement in personal healthcare. Today we are joined by Leo Beletsky, Appeal contributor and Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. 

The United States today exceeds at perpetually waging wars that are destined to fail to meet their purported objectives. The War on Terror is one such war. The War on Drugs is another. In both cases, failure never leads to much official questioning of the war let alone a repudiation of its underlying wisdom. The conventional wisdom is always that the war just hasn't been waged in the right way, or aggressively enough. My guest today is Leo Beletsky, who directs the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University. He and Jeremiah Goulka recently published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the abolition of the DEA, noting that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent fatal overdose rates have skyrocketed to a historic high. Let's #AbolishDEA. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out a huge catalogue of excellent left-wing books at versobooks.com. Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig!

In episode five of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH of Northeastern University. His commentary from the latest issue of the journal addresses common challenges that influence the delivery of substance use treatment in the primary care setting. He details underlying concepts of behavioral economics that may impact the decisions made by healthcare providers. Specifically, he addresses choice architecture as it relates to decisions regarding substance use treatment.   Read more here.

The drug war is a cause of, not solution to, the overdose crisis. Law and public health scholar @LeoBeletsky explains the origins of the opioid overdose crisis and how drug prohibition, policing, interdiction and incarceration are at its root — and continue to help make opioid use so deadly. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot versobooks.com/books/2571-out-of-the-wreckage Support us with your $ at Patreon.com/TheDig. We can't do this without our listeners!

(Bloomberg) -- Richard Ausness, a professor and the University of Kentucky School of Law, and Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discuss President Trump's Thursday announcement declaring a national emergency over the opioid crisis, which comes one day after Purdue Pharma was targeted by federal prosecutors over the marketing of controversial opioid painkiller OxyContin. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's Bloomberg Law. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

(Bloomberg) -- Richard Ausness, a professor and the University of Kentucky School of Law, and Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discuss President Trump's Thursday announcement declaring a national emergency over the opioid crisis, which comes one day after Purdue Pharma was targeted by federal prosecutors over the marketing of controversial opioid painkiller OxyContin. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso and Greg Stohr on Bloomberg Radio's Bloomberg Law.

Univ of Connecticut's Charles Venator-Santiago discusses the humanitarian crises in Puerto Rico. Leo Beletsky of Northeastern Univ on how insurance companies contribute to opioid crisis. Ashton Applewhite highlights ageism bias. Richard Kimball of BYU gives the history of protesting at sporting events. Parent Preview's Rod and Donna Gustafson review movies. Tech Transfer brings Bario Mizrachi to share a breakthrough in medicine.