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Understanding Supervised Injection Sites
August 25, 2022. For immediate release This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed supervised injection sites in the state. The legislation would have allowed supervised injection sites to operate in Los Angeles, San Francisco…
The Growing Drug Crisis and Its Ties To the Murdaugh Family
Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, was quoted in the NBC News story “Behind Alex Murdaugh’s ‘fall from grace’: Drug addiction fueled by opioid epidemic.” Monnat discussed the growing…
The Failed Policies of D.A.R.E.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced support of the D.A.R.E. program last week but research has shown the program and its methods for drug deterrence have not worked, according to Syracuse University researchers. Shannon Monnat, the incoming Lerner Chair for Public Health…