Public health and prisons: priorities in the age of mass incarceration

DH Cloud, IR Garcia-Grossman… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United
States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply …

Spatiotemporal analysis exploring the effect of law enforcement drug market disruptions on overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020–2021

B Ray, SJ Korzeniewski, G Mohler… - … journal of public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets
by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of …

One-year association of drug possession law change with fatal drug overdose in Oregon and Washington

S Joshi, BD Rivera, M Cerdá, GP Guy, A Strahan… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Two states modified laws to remove or substantially reduce criminal penalties for
any drug possession. The hypothesis was that removing criminal penalties for drug …

[HTML][HTML] The future of the United States overdose crisis: challenges and opportunities

M Cerdá, N Krawczyk, K Keyes - The Milbank Quarterly, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Policy Points: r People are dying at record numbers from overdose in the United States. r
Concerted action has led to a number of successes, including reduced inappropriate opioid …

Persistent criminalization and structural racism in US drug policy: the case of overdose good Samaritan laws

JR Pamplin, S Rouhani, CS Davis… - … journal of public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
The US overdose crisis continues to worsen and is disproportionately harming Black and
Hispanic/Latino people. Although the “War on Drugs” continues to shape drug policy—at the …

Decriminalization of drug possession in Oregon: Analysis and early lessons

K Russoniello, SP Vakharia… - Drug science, policy …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In November 2020, Oregon voters approved Measure 110, a ballot initiative that
decriminalized possession of small quantities of all drugs and allocated hundreds of millions …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in arrests following decriminalization of low-level drug possession in Oregon and Washington

CS Davis, S Joshi, BD Rivera, M Cerdá - International Journal of Drug …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Despite evidence that the US “War on Drugs” is associated with increases in
drug-related harm and other negative outcomes, all US states have long criminalized most …

“All carrots and no stick”: Perceived impacts, changes in practices, and attitudes among law enforcement following drug decriminalization in Oregon State, USA

HM Smiley-McDonald, PR Attaway, LD Wenger… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background By passing Ballot Measure 110 (BM 110), Oregon became the first US
state to decriminalize noncommercial possession of drugs that are illegal under the …

“It wasn't here, and now it is. It's everywhere": fentanyl's rising presence in Oregon's drug supply

SS Shin, K LaForge, E Stack, J Pope, G Leichtling… - Harm reduction …, 2022 - Springer
Background Illicit fentanyl has contributed to a drastic increase in overdose drug deaths.
While fentanyl has subsumed the drug supply in the Northeastern and Midwestern USA, it …

“2.5 g, I could do that before noon”: a qualitative study on people who use drugs' perspectives on the impacts of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs …

F Ali, C Russell, A Greer, M Bonn, D Werb… - … , Prevention, and Policy, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background In May 2022, Health Canada approved a three-year exemption from
the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act decriminalizing possession of certain illegal …