Drugs and Stuff: A Podcast from the Drug Policy Alliance

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Episode 29: Imprisonment and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19: DPA's Mary Sylla Explains the Risks

In her previous work as a civil rights attorney during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, DPA Senior Staff Attorney Mary Sylla saw firsthand the lack of adequate healthcare available to people who are incarcerated. To better understand how to solve the problem, she went back to school for a Masters in Public Health. On today’s episode, Mary talks about the current reality of health injustice in prisons and jails through the lens of COVID-19.

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  Episode 48: Classwide Scheduling of Fentanyl-Related Substances Won’t Save…

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  Episode 47: Maia Szalavitz Considers Harm Reduction’s Past and Future

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  Episode 46: The Brotherhood Sister Sol’s Dr. Marsha Jean-Charles on the Dr…

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  Episode 45: “Puff or Pass”: The Iconic, Ironic D.A.R.E. Shirt

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  Episode 44: Screenwriter Priscila García-Jacquier on Challenging the Narco…

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  Episode 43: The Ordinary People Society’s Pastor Kenneth Glasgow on the Dr…

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  Episode 42: Movement for Family Power’s Lisa Sangoi on the Drug War and th…

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  Episode 41: Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Talks All Drug Decrimina…

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  Episode 40: Christine Minhee on the Promises and Perils of Opioid Litigati…

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  Episode 39: After Her Son Overdosed and Died, Jessie Dunleavy Realized it …

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  Episode 38: Keri Blakinger Reports on the Criminal Justice System That Onc…

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  Episode 37: Police Militarization is Not Normal

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  Episode 36: “Puff or Pass”: What Law & Order SVU Has to Say About Drugs an…

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  Episode 35: Kerwin Kaye on How Drug Courts Coerce, Control, and Continue t…

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  Episode 34: Six Months Later, Safety First Drug Education Continues to Evo…

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  Episode 33: “Puff or Pass”: Can The Simpsons Really School Us on Cannabis?