The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.
Criminal Law
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Read more: Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation
What if squad cars and SWAT teams were the last line of response to social dysfunction, rather than the first?
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Read more: Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
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Read more: The Biden Administration Should Resolve Cannabis Regulation Chaos The Biden Administration Should Resolve Cannabis Regulation Chaos
The Biden Administration has the opportunity to be the first administration to rid our legal system of cannabis regulation chaos.
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Read more: Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
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Read more: Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety
Collective movement struggles during the twin crises of COVID-19 and the 2020 uprisings have helped blur the concepts of public safety and public health.
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Read more: Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed
To protect human rights and civil liberties, we must better understand and regulate projectiles, which are dangerous and poorly studied weapons.
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Read more: A Sensible, Evidence-Based Proposal for Kratom Reform A Sensible, Evidence-Based Proposal for Kratom Reform
Instead of fueling the long-failed War on Drugs by repressing kratom, the FDA should strengthen consumer confidence by creating uniform regulations.
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Read more: Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge
Supporting doctors and health care workers during times of crisis requires making concrete plans in advance for the worst case scenarios.
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Read more: The Case for Non-Police Response to Behavioral Health Crises The Case for Non-Police Response to Behavioral Health Crises
Despite being both feasible and effective, alternatives to police intervention for behavioral health crises remain the exception, rather than the rule.
