After 40 Years of Failed Rockefeller Drug Laws, New Report Identifies Comprehensive, Evidence -Based Solutions to New …

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How NY Can Become National Model by Shifting Drug Policy from a Criminalization-Based to a Public Health-Based Approach

Blueprint Report Brings Stakeholders to the Table: Elected Officials, Criminal Justice Representatives, Treatment Providers, Drug Users and Policymakers

Governor Cuomo Has an Opportunity to Demonstrate Strong Leadership: Despite 2009 Reforms, 40 Years After Rockefeller Drug Laws, Policies Remain Uncoordinated and Contradictory

What: Press Teleconference about the Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy When: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11 a.m. EST / 8 a.m. PST Who:

David Soares, Albany County District Attorney Dr. Ruth Finkelstein, Senior Vice President for Policy and Planning NYAM Dr. Robert Newman, Director, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute of Beth Israel Medical Center Maisha Drayton, Evergreen Health Services of Western NY gabriel sayegh, New York State Director, DPA Long Island parent who lost child to overdose Tony Papa, Formerly incarcerated on a 15 Life sentence under the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Location: 1-800-311-9402 Passcode: Blueprint

To view report: Executive Summary: http://bit.ly/blueprint-exec Full report: http://www.drugpolicy.org/blueprint

Newswise New York A comprehensive new report, Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy, by The New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance presents wide-ranging recommendations to implement a public health-based approach to drug policy, calling for strong, effective leadership to make change. The report demonstrates how New Yorks drug policies remain split between two different and often contradictory approaches criminalization and public health despite the historic 2009 reforms of the punitive Rockefeller Drug Laws.

The report is being issued almost 40 years to the day after Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the Rockefeller Drug Laws, which exemplified the lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key approach that was adopted nationwide in the ensuing decades, leading the U.S. to incarcerate more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. The report describes in detail how the state can once again be a model for the nation, this time for a more equitable, cost-effective, and evidence-based approach to drug policy.

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