Media Source:

The Liberal Patriot

Media URL:

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/lessons-from-oregons-failed-drug

Date:

2024/08/12

Summary:

Decades of criminalizing drug use have failed to end addiction. Yet harm reduction efforts intended to ameliorate criminalization have struggled for success, especially as newly addictive substances spread across the US.  Lewis & Clark Professor Rob Bovett discusses the challenges and opportunities for forging a bipartisan, public health approach to addiction that will better serve individuals and communities. Professor Bovett has spent much of his career creating and implementing evidence-based programs to move individuals suffering from addiction out of the criminal justice system and into treatment and recovery.