11 Jul 2023
From Ed Baker:
Grey is a senior policy counsel for the Drug Policy Alliance, which is the leading organization in the United States working to end the drug war, repair its harms, and build a non-punitive, equitable, and regulated drug market. Prior to his work for DPA he practiced law as a public defender for over a decade and served as legislative staff for several members of Congress in Washington, DC.
David Mickenberg is a partner at the Burlington law firm Mickenberg, Dunn & Smith, and has been actively involved in drug policy reform since 1997. He started his career at the Drug Policy Alliance where he worked on political efforts to reduce the harms associated with the war on drugs, including a multiyear effort to allow Vermonters to access methadone treatment. He currently works on a variety of public policy campaigns including an effort to decriminalize drugs in favor of a public health approach; a push to decriminalize sex work; legislation to increase the rights of working Vermonters; and efforts to increase benefits and protections for older Vermonters. David played an active role in the establishment of Vermont's medical cannabis program; legislation to decriminalize cannabis; legislation to legalize home grow, possession of cannabis, and expungement of previous cannabis convictions; and legislation to establish a regulated system for cannabis sales.
Guests: David Mickenberg and Grey Gardner (remote). Christopher Miller, Activism Manager at Ben & Jerry's.
For more information visit www.drugpolicy.org | www.decrimvermont.org
7/11/2023
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Grey is a senior policy counsel for the Drug Policy Alliance, which is the leading organization in the United States working to end the drug war, repair its harms, and build a non-punitive, equitable, and regulated drug market. Prior to his work for DPA he practiced law as a public defender for over a decade and served as legislative staff for several members of Congress in Washington, DC.
David Mickenberg is a partner at the Burlington law firm Mickenberg, Dunn & Smith, and has been actively involved in drug policy reform since 1997. He started his career at the Drug Policy Alliance where he worked on political efforts to reduce the harms associated with the war on drugs, including a multiyear effort to allow Vermonters to access methadone treatment. He currently works on a variety of public policy campaigns including an effort to decriminalize drugs in favor of a public health approach; a push to decriminalize sex work; legislation to increase the rights of working Vermonters; and efforts to increase benefits and protections for older Vermonters. David played an active role in the establishment of Vermont's medical cannabis program; legislation to decriminalize cannabis; legislation to legalize home grow, possession of cannabis, and expungement of previous cannabis convictions; and legislation to establish a regulated system for cannabis sales.
Guests: David Mickenberg and Grey Gardner (remote). Christopher Miller, Activism Manager at Ben & Jerry's.
For more information visit www.drugpolicy.org | www.decrimvermont.org
7/11/2023
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- 3 participants
- 56 minutes
20 Apr 2023
From Ed Baker:
Dr. Joseph D’Orazio, a noted expert, discusses the pharmacology of xylazine, the clinical course and clinical management of overdose, the complications presented by fentanyl/xylazine combination, xylazine wounds and wound care, and the growing prevalence of xylazine in the unregulated drug supply.
Dr. Joseph D'Orazio is an emergency physician, medical toxicologist, and addiction medicine specialist at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He cares for Temple patients in a variety of settings, including the emergency department, an inpatient consultative service for addiction medicine and toxicology, the TRUST Clinic (an office-based opioid treatment program), and Begin the Turn (Temple's low-barrier access street-side medicine program). Dr. D’Orazio is a medical toxicologist for the Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is regarded as a regional expert regarding substance use and substance use disorder treatment in Philadelphia.
4/20/2023
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Dr. Joseph D’Orazio, a noted expert, discusses the pharmacology of xylazine, the clinical course and clinical management of overdose, the complications presented by fentanyl/xylazine combination, xylazine wounds and wound care, and the growing prevalence of xylazine in the unregulated drug supply.
Dr. Joseph D'Orazio is an emergency physician, medical toxicologist, and addiction medicine specialist at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He cares for Temple patients in a variety of settings, including the emergency department, an inpatient consultative service for addiction medicine and toxicology, the TRUST Clinic (an office-based opioid treatment program), and Begin the Turn (Temple's low-barrier access street-side medicine program). Dr. D’Orazio is a medical toxicologist for the Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is regarded as a regional expert regarding substance use and substance use disorder treatment in Philadelphia.
4/20/2023
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- 2 participants
- 43 minutes
13 Feb 2023
Key members of VOPN discuss Network views and policies related to preventing drug overdose death in Vermont. With guests Theresa Vezina, Mike Selick, and Joe Magee.
Mike Selick is the Associate Director of Capacity building at National Harm Reduction Coalition. He has been a community organizer and advocate for human rights focusing on police accountability, inequality, drug use, sex work, homelessness, HIV, and Hepatitis C for more than 15 years. Prior to joining the organization 7 years ago, he worked at New York City harm reduction programs, first with a focus on public policy and peer training, and then as the Director of Services at a South Bronx syringe service program. Mike earned his Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Public Policy from Columbia University. Mike is currently based out of Burlington, Vermont.
Theresa Vezina is the Executive Director at Vermont CARES, the state's largest, longest running AIDS Service Organization providing Harm Reduction services in 11 of the 14 counties in Vermont. Theresa is a leader in our state, a person with lived and living experience of drug use and a proud of it. Her journey away from a life of self-destructive use and chaos began close to 20 years ago. She has devoted her life to working with and for people who use drugs. She has been in the harm reduction field for more than a decade and comes with a deep respect and love of the work.
Joe Magee is a harm reduction advocate and person in recovery, working to breakdown stigma around addiction and mental health. He is also a Burlington City Councilor working to bring harm reduction practices into municipal policymaking.
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Mike Selick is the Associate Director of Capacity building at National Harm Reduction Coalition. He has been a community organizer and advocate for human rights focusing on police accountability, inequality, drug use, sex work, homelessness, HIV, and Hepatitis C for more than 15 years. Prior to joining the organization 7 years ago, he worked at New York City harm reduction programs, first with a focus on public policy and peer training, and then as the Director of Services at a South Bronx syringe service program. Mike earned his Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Public Policy from Columbia University. Mike is currently based out of Burlington, Vermont.
Theresa Vezina is the Executive Director at Vermont CARES, the state's largest, longest running AIDS Service Organization providing Harm Reduction services in 11 of the 14 counties in Vermont. Theresa is a leader in our state, a person with lived and living experience of drug use and a proud of it. Her journey away from a life of self-destructive use and chaos began close to 20 years ago. She has devoted her life to working with and for people who use drugs. She has been in the harm reduction field for more than a decade and comes with a deep respect and love of the work.
Joe Magee is a harm reduction advocate and person in recovery, working to breakdown stigma around addiction and mental health. He is also a Burlington City Councilor working to bring harm reduction practices into municipal policymaking.
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- 4 participants
- 1:00 hours
13 Dec 2022
From Ed Baker:
Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, which is the first history of the movement aimed at focusing drug policy on minimizing harms, not highs.
Her previous New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction wove together neuroscience and social science with her personal experience of heroin addiction. It won the 2018 media award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
She writes regularly for the New York Times and has written for numerous other publications including TIME, Wired, Elle, the Nation, Vice, the Guardian and Scientific American. Her 2006 book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, was the first to expose the damage caused by “tough love” youth treatment and helped spur Congressional hearings.
She has also authored or co-authored five other books, including the classic on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, with Dr. Bruce D. Perry. With Dr. Perry, she has also written Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered, which laid out why empathy is essential for social trust and how inequality can erode it. With Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, she wrote Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, the first evidence-based guide to addiction treatment.
She lives with her husband and two squeaky cats in New York City. Twitter: @maiasz
12/13/2022
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Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, which is the first history of the movement aimed at focusing drug policy on minimizing harms, not highs.
Her previous New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction wove together neuroscience and social science with her personal experience of heroin addiction. It won the 2018 media award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
She writes regularly for the New York Times and has written for numerous other publications including TIME, Wired, Elle, the Nation, Vice, the Guardian and Scientific American. Her 2006 book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, was the first to expose the damage caused by “tough love” youth treatment and helped spur Congressional hearings.
She has also authored or co-authored five other books, including the classic on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, with Dr. Bruce D. Perry. With Dr. Perry, she has also written Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered, which laid out why empathy is essential for social trust and how inequality can erode it. With Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, she wrote Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, the first evidence-based guide to addiction treatment.
She lives with her husband and two squeaky cats in New York City. Twitter: @maiasz
12/13/2022
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- 2 participants
- 54 minutes
13 Oct 2022
From Ed Baker:
Dr. Brandon Marshall is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and a recognized researcher placing specific emphasis on harm reduction interventions and overdose prevention. Dr. Marshall and his team evaluate programs and policies that aim to improve the health and well-being of people who use drugs.
Dr. Marshall reviews current research and discusses the promise of OPCs in the USA.
10/13/2022
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Dr. Brandon Marshall is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and a recognized researcher placing specific emphasis on harm reduction interventions and overdose prevention. Dr. Marshall and his team evaluate programs and policies that aim to improve the health and well-being of people who use drugs.
Dr. Marshall reviews current research and discusses the promise of OPCs in the USA.
10/13/2022
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- 2 participants
- 56 minutes
11 Jul 2022
From Ed Baker:
Join Ed Baker and his noted guest, Dr. Nora Volkow, as they discuss the consistently accelerating velocity of drug overdose death in America. The relationship between the deadly force of stigma and the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl will be explored. Current Harm Reduction Interventions and their necessity and effectiveness during this time of public health crisis are discussed. The effectiveness and potential of Overdose Prevention Sites is investigated.
7/11/2022
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Join Ed Baker and his noted guest, Dr. Nora Volkow, as they discuss the consistently accelerating velocity of drug overdose death in America. The relationship between the deadly force of stigma and the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl will be explored. Current Harm Reduction Interventions and their necessity and effectiveness during this time of public health crisis are discussed. The effectiveness and potential of Overdose Prevention Sites is investigated.
7/11/2022
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- 2 participants
- 55 minutes
24 Jun 2022
From Ed Baker:
Kailin See is the Senior Director of Programs for both the Washington Heights CORNER Project and the New York Harm Reduction Education Project, serving Washington Heights, East Harlem and the Bronx in New York City. She was the program and development lead for the historic opening of the first two sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers in the United States.
Kailin explains, in detail, what these Overdose Prevention Centers are, how they work, who they serve, and what their accomplishments have been over their first six months in NYC.
6/24/2022
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Kailin See is the Senior Director of Programs for both the Washington Heights CORNER Project and the New York Harm Reduction Education Project, serving Washington Heights, East Harlem and the Bronx in New York City. She was the program and development lead for the historic opening of the first two sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers in the United States.
Kailin explains, in detail, what these Overdose Prevention Centers are, how they work, who they serve, and what their accomplishments have been over their first six months in NYC.
6/24/2022
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- 2 participants
- 52 minutes
