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A public health approach to drug policy — harm reduction, overdose prevention, stigma reduction, and risk-based regulation.
Drug policy written as public health treats addiction as a medical and social condition — not a moral failing to be punished into submission. These posts make the case for measuring outcomes (deaths, hospitalizations, reentry success) instead of measuring virtue. They cover funding treatment without raising taxes, ditching moral panic for evidence, and building regulation around risk rather than ideology. If you believe the goal is fewer deaths and less disorder, this is where those arguments live.
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Drug Legalization Series · Part 18
Part 18 makes the case for a public health approach to drug policy over moral panic, using harm reduction strategies, overdose prevention, addiction stigma reduction, and risk-based drug regulation to reduce death, disorder, and failed policy.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 17
Part 17 uses real drug policy case studies to examine what worked, what failed, and why across Portugal drug decriminalization, Oregon Measure 110 results, British Columbia safer supply, Switzerland heroin-assisted treatment, and cannabis legalization outcomes.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 16
Part 16 lays out a drug legalization pilot program framework that pilots risk-based drug regulation, measures overdose prevention and public safety outcomes, and scales only what works with strong diversion control, 42 CFR Part 2 privacy, and outcomes-based funding.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 13
We explore the connection between drug addiction and homelessness, mental illness, and housing first addiction recovery in part 13 of the drug legalization and regulation series.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 12
Prison release overdose risk is highest in the first days and weeks after release. This chapter explains which pre-release and post-release programs actually reduce overdose, recidivism, and instability.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 11
Evidence-based drug prevention programs beat scare tactics—here’s what actually reduces youth drug use, why fear-based drug education fails, and how prevention fits inside drug legalization and strict regulation.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 8
In part 8 of the drug legalization blog series, we explore fear-based drug policy, Oregon's Measure 110 results, and what effective policy would entail.
Drug Legalization Series · Part 7
A recovery lockbox captures enforcement savings and regulated-market revenue to fund MOUD, recovery housing, and reentry using National Drug Control Budget FY 2025 realities and real jail costs.