The WH event today went off with a few technical hitches, video and/or
audio transmission dropping off a few times, but otherwise it seemed to go
fairly well. Only one person, an attendee named Imani Walker from the
Rebecca Project for Human Rights, seemed to go off-script and caught the
speakers by surprise when she pointed out, in the brief Q&A following the
panel on stigma (which was chaired by Patrick Kennedy), that stigma is only
escalated by criminalization. The audio of Ms. Walker pointing out, and
Kennedy missing, the elephant in the room, is at:
The full conference audio is available through the links below. Each
segment begins in the middle of introductory remarks, fortunately the
meaningful portions of the conference recorded clearly and without
interruption:
Opening speeches and Panel 1: Public health:
Gil Kerlikowske (partial)
James M. Cole, US DOJ
Jack Stein, NIDA
Jacki Hillios, Phoenix MultiSport
Alby Zweig, drug court magistrate, former heroin addict, drug court graduate
David Minetta, ONDCP
Panel 1: Public Health Approaches to Drug PolicyModerator: Michael
Botticelli, Deputy Director, ONDCP
Panelists:
Dr. Paul Seale, Medical Director, SBIRT in GA
Jamila Sams, Mentor Foundation USA
Jacki Hillios, Phoenix MultiSports
Chaplain Fred Brason, Project Lazarus, Wilkes County, NC
Moderator: Tanya Robinson, White House Domestic Policy Council
Panelists:
Rick Morrison, Roanoke, VA Police Dept., oversees Drug Market Initiative
project
Alby Zweig
Karen Christenson, drug court graduate
Panel 3: Stigmatization and treatment, followed by concluding remarks by
Gil Kerlikowske
Moderator: Patrick Kennedy
Panelists: Walter Ginter, Medication-Assisted Recovery Services
Neil Kaltenecker, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse
Dr. John Kelly, Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH)-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine, and Program Director of the
MGH Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS).
I ask that anyone using the audio or linking to it, credit it to me and
please also put it in a link to drugwarfacts.org.
—
Doug McVay
Editor, Drug War Facts
Board Member, Common Sense for Drug Policy
Advisory Board Member, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
www.drugwarfacts.org
cel: 717.940.2154
twitter: @dougmcvay
skype: dougmcvay
