Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 30, 2018 Drug Policy Alliance Blog By: Widney Brown There is something seriously wrong when doctors are blaming people who inject drugs for poor health rather than asking why government, at the local, state, and federal levels are not taking measures that are proven to protect the health[Read More…]
Commentary
U.S. Delegation Traveled to Portugal to Learn From Country’s Groundbreaking Drug Decriminalization Policy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 27, 2018 By: Tony Newman Last month, Drug Policy Alliance’s Grants, Partnerships and Special Projects team, led by senior director, asha bandele, organized an historic delegation of advocates and journalists who traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to understand how that nation disrupted its own overdose epidemic in the 1990s,[Read More…]
Ben Carson Should Follow the Example of Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Experience Life in Public Housing
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Two things have been made perfectly clear by the Trump Administration. First, only the wealthy deserve a ‘real’ tax break and second, poor Americans are being held back by receiving public assistance. Without government subsidies, many more of ‘these’ people would be working and[Read More…]
Peak Health Plan Premiums Give Rise To Activism — And Unconventional Solutions
Charlottesville, VA—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rachel Bluth When Garnett and Dave Mellen sent their 19-year-old daughter, Gita, off to college an hour away at Virginia Commonwealth University last fall, they didn’t expect to follow her. But in November, the family received notice that its monthly health insurance premium in Charlottesville[Read More…]
Analysis: Trump Infrastructure Plan Would Leave Communities Voiceless Again
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—April 24, 2018 By: Kristina Costa, Lia Cattaneo, As President Donald Trump promotes his flawed infrastructure plan, a new issue brief from the Center for American Progress shows how it could turn the clock back to a time when the public had limited rights to challenge poorly designed highways,[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Gun Violence Prevention Research in Federal Spending Bill
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 23, 2018 By: Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics “This morning, Congress passed a comprehensive spending bill to fund the federal government. The bill includes several notable victories for children’s health championed by the Academy—increased funding for emergency medical services for children, pediatric[Read More…]
asha bandele: Prince Could Still Be Alive Today if America Didn’t Shame People for Using Drugs
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—April 23, 2018 By Anthony Smith On the second anniversary of Prince’s tragic death, asha bandele wants us to celebrate his life. “Prince meant freedom for me as a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s and 1990s,” bandele, senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance, said in[Read More…]
Analysis: EPA Proposal Fails to Protect Children from Coal Ash Pollution and Removes Polluters’ Obligation to Immediately Clean Up Spills
EPA hearing scheduled for Tuesday on Trump administration plan to roll back 2015 coal ash regulations Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 20, 2018 Contact: Valerie Holford A new, close review of the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft plan to gut federal coal ash regulations established in 2015 reveals that it would encourage[Read More…]
Trump Administration Prepares for Lease Sale in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Organizations respond with commitment to stand with Gwich’in to defend irreplaceable wildlands, wildlife, human rights and to protect our climate Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2018 Contact: Rebecca Bowe, Earthjustice The Trump administration has announced the beginning of a planning process to allow for exploration and leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife[Read More…]
National Student Walkout Against Gun Violence to Take Place on Friday, April 20
NATIONWIDE—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser On April 20th, the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, American students will walk out of class and protest. This National Student Walkout is taking place due to continued failure of our leaders to pass laws that protect us from gun violence. Mass[Read More…]
