public policy
Addiction and Public Policy Resources
Methamphetamine Resources
- CSAM Recommendations to Improve California's Response to Methamphetamine
- Methamphetamine Resources Page
Proposition 36 and Treatment vs. Incarceration for Drug Abuse Resources
- Recommendations for Improvements to Proposition 36: Testimony by Peter Banys, MD to the Little Hoover Commission (8/23/2007)
- Proposition 36 Funding Fact Sheet 2007
- CSAM Recommendations for Improving Proposition 36 (April 2006)
- Proposition 36 Success Stories
- CSAM Op-Ed in the Riverside Press Enterprse
- CSAM Opposes Legislative Changes to Proposition 36
- Reallocate Resources Toward Drug Treatment and Prevention by Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
Substance Abuse Treatment Parity Resources
- Report on Parity from Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
- Parity for Addiction Treatment is Good Care and Good Business Pracice by Gary Jaeger, MD
- Report on Parity from the Washinton Business Group on Health
- Parity Talking Points
- Results of 2001 Rand Corp. Study on Substance Abuse Parity
- National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets
- Substance Abuse: The Nation's #1 Health Problem - report from RWJ Foundation
- Op-Ed by Donald Kurth, MD, Chair, CSAM Committee on Public Policy
- Parity Fact Sheet
- California Legislative Analyst Study
- Replies to Arguments Raised by Parity Opponents
CSAM Supports Needle Exchange Programs and Pharmacy Sale of Syringes to Save Lives Without Increasing Drug Addiction
- Syringe Fact Sheet
- Research Shows that Needle Exchange Programs Decrease HIV INfections Without Increasing Drug Use
- Evidence-based findings on the efficacy of syringe exchange programs: an analysis of the scientific research completed since April 1998 by David Satcher, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General
Methadone and the Treatment of Opiate Dependence
- Fact Sheet on Methadone Treatment Issues
- NIH Consensus Statement on the Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction
- CSAM Letter to Drug Court Judges on Methadone
Background Information
- Report by Gary Jaeger, MD to California's Little Hoover Commission
- Addiction is a Chronic Relapsing Disease by Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
- Eliminate the Stigma Associated with the Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug Problems by Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy
- Addiction is a Brain Disease by Alan Leshner, MD, former Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
