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IS OUR DRUG POLICY EFFECTIVE?
ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES?
A Two-Day Multidisciplinary Conference |
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presented by
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
The New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Sciences |
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supported by
The David H. Cogan Foundation
LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, LLP |
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sponsored by
All Souls Unitarian Church
Center for Community Alternatives
Continuum Health Partners (Beth Israel Hospital, Long Island College Hospital, New York Eye and Ear Hospital, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital)
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
La Bodega de la Familia
NY Society for Ethical Culture
Osborne/Correctional Association
Phoenix House Foundation
Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy
Voluntary Committee of Lawyers |
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w Friday March 17, 2000, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St, New York, NY 10029
w Saturday March 18, 2000, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 |
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Program Day One
Friday March 17, 2000 at the New York Academy of Medicine
(1216 Fifth Avenue [at 103rd Street], New York, NY 10029)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration (for both days or only day one) and continental breakfast buffet
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. David Vlahov, PhD, NYAM, introducing
Jeremiah Barondess, MD, President of NYAM--Welcome
9:10 - 9:15 a.m. Acknowledgments, and brief overview of the two days
Jefferson Fish, PhD--St. John's University
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. What Are the Objectives of Our Drug Policy? (Chair, Hon. Milton Mollen)
Edward H. Jurith, Esq.--General Counsel, Office of National Drug Control Policy
David Musto, MD--Yale Medical School
10:15 - 10:30 a.m . Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Overviews of Drug Policy Effectiveness (Chair, Henry Jarecki, MD )
Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke
Eric Sterling, Esq.--President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Impact of Drug Policy on Human Rights and Minorities (Chair, William E. Hellerstein, Esq.--Brooklyn Law School)
Dawn Day, PhD--Dogwood Center
Marc Mauer--Sentencing Project
Julie Stewart--Families Against Mandatory Minimums
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12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Buffet lunch at NYAM
1:30 - 1:40 p.m Henry Moss, PhD, NYAS, introducing
Rodney Nichols, President of NYAS-- Welcome
1:40 - 3:25 p.m. Living with Our Drug Policy
(The effects of current policy on everyday life in the United States, and specifically on the professions represented by NYAS, NYAM, and ABCNY--scientists, physicians, attorneys, judges, and others associated with the legal system.) (Chair, Thomas H. Haines, PhD--City University of New York)
Charles D. Adler, Esq.--ABCNY
Terence Farley, Esq.--Director, Narcotics Strike Force, Ocean County New Jersey
Ethan Russo, MD--University of Montana
Lester Grinspoon, MD--Harvard Medical School
Hon. Robert W. Sweet --US District Court Judge
3:25 - 3:40 p.m. Coffee break
3:40 - 5:30 p.m. Panel on Education, Prevention, and Treatment (Chair, Marcia Weissman, Executive Director, Center for Community Alternatives)
PART I
Joel Brown, PhD--Center for Educational Research and Development
Rodney Skager, PhD, UCLA
G. Alan Marlatt, PhD--University of Washington
PART II
David Vlahov, PhD--NYAM
Howard Josepher--Exponents, Inc.
Sally Satel, MD--Oasis Clinic, Washington, DC
Robert Newman, MD--President, Continuum Health Partners
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Program Day Two
Saturday March 18, 2000 at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
(42 West 44th Street [between Fifth and Sixth Avenues], New York, NY 10036)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration (for day two only) and continental breakfast buffet
9:00 - 9:10 a.m . Charles D. Adler, Esq., Chair, ABCNY Criminal Law Committee
Welcome
9:10 - 9:15 a.m. Overview of day two--Jefferson Fish, PhD
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Drug Policy and the Rule of Law--(Chair, Chester Salomon, Esq. ABCNY Committee on Drugs and the Law)
Speaker--Former US Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Drug Policy Alternatives I--General Considerations--(Chair, Jefferson Fish, PhD)
Peter Reuter, PhD --University of Maryland
Richard M. Evans, Esq.--Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel on Drug Policy Alternatives II--Differing Proposals
(Chair, Mary M. Cleveland, PhD--Schalkenbach Foundation)
Michael Massing--author of The Fix
Drs. Bart Majoor--St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction
Steven Duke, Esq.--Yale Law School
David Boaz--Cato Institute
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Buffet lunch at ABCNY
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Panel on International Dimensions of Drug Policy (Chair, )
Ethan Nadelmann, JD, PhD--Lindesmith Center
LCDR Sylvester Salcedo, USNR (Ret)
Freek Polak, MD--Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation
Alfred W. McCoy, PhD--University of Wisconsin, Madison
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 - 5:00 p.m. Panel on Drug Policy and the Media (Chair, Sonya Hamlin--Sonya Hamlin Communications)
Peter Kerr--Phoenix House Foundation
MiMi Rosenberg, Esq--WBAI
Dan Forbes--Salon.com
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Questions and discussion from audience and speakers about anything relevant to any aspect of the Conference |
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration at the door, 8:30 AM, both days
$20 per day ($15 for students). Includes lunch.
Credit card registration accepted
More information: Call Jefferson Fish at (718) 990-1547, Valerie Vande Panne at (212) 362-1964, Henry Moss at (212) 838-0230 x 410
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