Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy

The New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance have released a joint report, entitled "Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy" -  almost 40 years to the day after Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed his eponymous drug laws, a "lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key" approach that was adopted nationwide in the ensuing decades, leading the U.S. to incarcerate more of its own citizens than any other country in the world.