Republicans are doubling down on policies that will make the overdose crisis even deadlier such as boosting the police and undermining harm reduction.
, immigrants, progressive reformers, and lifesaving harm reduction services in an effort to fill the media with tough-on-crime rhetoric ahead of the midterms.
“After 50 years of a failed war on drugs and well over a trillion dollars spent on the criminalization of people who use and sell drugs, and this is where it’s gotten us,” said Jules Netherland, the director of research and academic engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, in an interview withThe GOP’s approach is outlined in a memo to President Joe Biden released this week by the Republican Study Committee , a caucus of conservative lawmakers that bills itself as a “leading influencer on the...
Experts say the GOP’s plan to empower police — who vastly increase the risk of overdose through arrest and incarceration, and are almost never held accountable for harming people who use drugs — would make the overdose crisis much more deadly. “Clearly, drug criminalization is a failed approach, and to see the GOP doubling down on something we know doesn’t work… it feels irresponsible and frankly tragic given the enormous loss of life,” Netherland said.
Released by Chairman Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, the RSC memo rehashes the same talking points about “crime,” drugs and immigration the GOP has hurled at Democrats for months now. For example, the memo conflates Biden and the Democrats with calls to “defund the police” and the Black Lives Matter movement. In reality, Biden and most Democrats
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