Does the ADA Protect People with Substance Use Disorder from Health Care Discrimination?
Further action is needed to prevent discrimination in health care services towards persons with addiction.
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Read more: A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19? A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?
Across-the-board policies that fail to assess accommodation requests on an individual basis do not comply with federal disability law.
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Read more: State Genetic Privacy Statutes: Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences? State Genetic Privacy Statutes: Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences?
Investigative genetic genealogy is a new and complex law enforcement technique that should not be regulated by accident or as an afterthought.
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Read more: A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers
The law surrounding reasonable modifications in health care is well-settled, but practical realities pose challenges to securing accommodations.
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Read more: Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID
The need for public health laws and policies that align with and reinforce civil rights protections is greater than ever.
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Read more: Personal Crusades for Public Health Personal Crusades for Public Health
Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades.
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Read more: COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence? COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative
I will be direct: schools that have officially departed from masking are stating an ongoing commitment to purposeful exclusion.
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Read more: Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
We know that COVID can affect our brains in ways both serious and subtle. How can our law and policy infrastructure understand and deal with its effects?
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Read more: Mobilizing Long COVID Awareness to Better Support People with Acquired Disabilities Mobilizing Long COVID Awareness to Better Support People with Acquired Disabilities
The upswell of advocacy around Long COVID should be mobilized to call attention to and address the challenges faced by newly-disabled adults.
