The Recovery Movement and its Role in Ending the Failed War on Drugs

The Recovery Movement and Its Role in Ending the Drug War
San Gabriel B, Lobby Level
People in recovery are playing an increasingly active role in drug policy reform efforts. This discussion will address the role of people in recovery in drug policy reform work as well as the challenges of bridging abstinence-based work with harm reduction. Where and how can people in recovery work with other drug policy reform advocates? What are the areas of agreement and shared goals? Why do people in recovery and harm reduction advocates often exclude each other from strategic conversations and policy debates? And how can we elevate the voice of the recovery movement in the drug policy reform debate and support people in recovery to become advocates to end the war on drugs?

Facilitator:  Howard Josepher, Director, Exponents, New York, NY

• Anneke Campbell, Doctoral Student, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
• Katharine Celentano, Columbia University Students for Sensible Drug Policy, New York, NY
• Adi Jaffe, Ph.D., Director, All About Addiction, Los Angeles, CA
• Lou Martinez, MSW, Graduate of Prop 36, Sacramento, CA
• William Cope Moyers, Executive Director, Hazelden's Center
  for Public Advocacy, Center City, MN
• Liese Recke, Psychologist and Project Officer, The Street Lawyers, Oslo, Norway
• Eric Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Silver Spring, MD
• Pat Taylor, Executive Director, Faces & Voices of Recovery, Washington, D.C.