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Join us for our latest #DPACOVIDSeries Discussion on Thursday July 23 from 2-4pm EST to hear about why #SafeSupply and Legal Regulation of drugs is essential in this moment. RSVP: bit.ly/DPACOVIDSeries6 
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#COVID19, Drug Policy, and Decarceration
#COVID19, Drug Policy, and Decarceration
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Reconsidering Re-entry: Exploring Decarceration in its Fullness Amid #COVID19
Reconsidering Re-entry: Exploring Decarceration in its Fullness Amid #COVID19
Over 1,000 participants have joined our #DPACOVIDSeries where we discuss the nexus of #COVID19 and key drug policy issues. Next one is Thurs July 9th 2-4pm EST on Informal & Gig Economies. Register here and/or check out recordings of past discussions ➡️ drugpolicy.org/covid19series
Criminalization, racism, citizenship, ableism, and parenting impact a person’s ability to find work, and the informal sale of services and goods (e.g. drug selling, sex work, street vending) is a lifeline for many who are shut out of or choose not to work in the formal economy.
#COVID19 has disrupted markets, further exacerbating economic instability and increasing the risk of COVID-19 and police aggression and violence. Join us as we assess how we can end the criminalization of all informal economy workers and ensure collective safety.
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Kima Taylor kicking off the panel by highlighting the fact that treatment will not 'fix' all our problems and we have to think about substance use more broadly and the holistic needs and systems needed to address people's needs.
And that we cannot look at substance use without zooming out and thinking about the racialized war on drugs that started out as a war on communities of color, particularly around the labor threat they posed to white Americans.
We're starting soon, please join us! bit.ly/DPACOVIDSeries3 Follow along this thread for live tweets. #DPACOVIDSeries
Kima Taylor of @urbaninstitute shares her issue with how treatment is framed as solving a problem & how that ignores the history of racism and other forms of oppression. #DPACOVIDSeries
Kima Taylor of @urbaninstitute challenges us to widen our frame of understanding what treatment is. Lots of people don't need what we call treatment and treatment can encompass a lot of services. #DPACOVIDSeries
