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.
Criminal Law
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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.
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Read more: How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis
To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Read more: Government Report Finds Care Deficits for Pregnant People in Federal Custody Government Report Finds Care Deficits for Pregnant People in Federal Custody
Pregnant and postpartum people in federal custody receive care directed by policies that fail to meet national standards, a new report finds,
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Read more: The Myth of Psychedelic Exceptionalism The Myth of Psychedelic Exceptionalism
Psychedelic drug reform is not occurring at the expense of other drug reforms. Instead, it paves the way for larger reforms.
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Read more: Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy
An American public health and safety-promoting drug policy agenda grounded in sound science is long overdue.
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Read more: Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies
Moving the United States beyond the opioid overdose crisis and pernicious inequities in law enforcement requires bold, innovative solutions.
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Read more: Computational Psychiatry for Precision Sentencing in Criminal Law Computational Psychiatry for Precision Sentencing in Criminal Law
Deep phenotyping offers the criminal justice system the tools to improve public safety, identify low-risk offenders, and reduce recidivism.
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Read more: How to Reduce Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System How to Reduce Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
In order to limit racial disparities in diversion programs, we should move away from using recidivism as their primary measure of success.
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Read more: Police Should Not Be Enforcing Emergency Public Health Orders Police Should Not Be Enforcing Emergency Public Health Orders
State and local governments face twin crises: halting the spread of COVID-19 and grappling with the systemic racism of American policing.
