Ending the US Overdose Crisis: lessons from other times and places
The US is in the midst of a major public health crisis. Tens of thousands of deaths are directly attributable to overdose over the past two decades and no end is in sight.
Reeling from the failures of the "war on drugs", many argue for new approaches grounded more firmly in public health and human centred drug policies. Some of the world’s leading experts on this topic discussed how the US can learn from the lessons of past policy failures and create policies that provide greater hope to help end the overdose crisis.
This event was held on 22 October 2019.