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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PREV community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please see below for a statement from Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), on the inequities caused by the criminalization of drug addiction—with inequities such as inequitable
enforcement, ineffective punishment, inequitable access to treatment, the vicious cycle of punishment described. Dr. Volkow concludes with a commitment to a public health approach, with research “urgently needed to establish the effectiveness and impact of
public health–based alternatives to criminalization” and “The US must take a public health approach to drug addiction now, in the interest of both population well-being and health equity.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This shift in how NIH and NIDA think about substance use brings me hope. It is a privilege to see some of you conducting prevention science research directly in this space, focused on social, ecological, and
contextual variables to better understand and help reduce (and ultimately eliminate) some of the inequities caused the US’s criminalization of substance use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210421.168499/full/">https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210421.168499/full/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Leslie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Leslie Leve, PhD (she/her)<br>
Alumni Faculty Professor, College of Education</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Associate Vice President</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Associate Director, Prevention Science Institute<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Program Director, Prevention Science graduate programs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">University of Oregon</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Phone: 541-346-9601<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Web:</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><a href="https://levelab.uoregon.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://levelab.uoregon.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black"> <a href="https://education.uoregon.edu/people/prevsci/leve"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://education.uoregon.edu/people/prevsci/leve</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Member, National Scientific Council on Adolescence,
<a href="https://developingadolescent.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://developingadolescent.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community
of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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