ADPP Professors’ Research on Children Who Lost a Parent to Drug Overdose
June 5th, 2024
Dr. Christopher Jones, along with 2 other ADPP professors Dr. Emily Einstein and Dr. Wilson Compton recently published their study in JAMA Psychiatry titled “Estimated Number of Children Who…
Professor Brandon del Pozo’s Latest Article Featured in the Boston Globe
June 5th, 2024
Brandon del Pozo, Professor of Public Health and Criminology, has recently published a new article in the Boston Globe titled Why the Drug Reform Movement Looks Like It’s…
ADPP student Lydia Kener contributes to the O’Neill Institute’s Expert Column
February 26th, 2024
Current Addiction Policy & Practice student Lydia Kener contributed a guest blog to the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law’s Expert Column on the Medicaid Inmate…
ADPP alum Chad Jackson, Chairman of DC’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, quoted in the Washington Post
February 26th, 2024
Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post Chad Jackson, Addiction Policy & Practice alum and Chairman of DC’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, is quoted in the Washington…
ADPP alum chosen to sit on D.C.’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission
October 17th, 2023
Addiction Policy & Practice alum Chad Jackson was chosen to sit on D.C.’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission to advise Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and the D.C. Council on how best to utilize…
GUMC, O’Neill Institute Host Naloxone Training in Honor of International Overdose Awareness Day
September 11th, 2023
In recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st, The Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and the HoyaDOPE…
Georgetown Day 2023: SXBER IS SAXA
May 1st, 2023
On Friday, April 28th Hoyas For Recovery (HFR) partnered with Binge Bar, DC’s first sober bar, to sponsor an event featuring unleaded craft cocktails, food, and community for Georgetown Day 2023!…
Director Regina LaBelle, J.D. interviewed on C-SPAN
February 14th, 2023
After President Biden highlighted the 70,000+ lives lost per year to the fentanyl crisis in his State of the Union Address, Regina LaBelle joined C-SPAN to discuss how federal, state, and local…
CDC’s Injury Center Appoints Addiction Policy & Practice Professor, Christopher Jones, To Director
February 14th, 2023
Dr. Christopher Jones, adjunct faculty for the Master’s in Addiction Policy & Practice program, has been appointed Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Injury Center.…
Director Regina LaBelle, J.D. interviewed on CBS News
February 14th, 2023
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that in 2022 it seized more than 379 million doses of fentanyl. Professor LaBelle, Director of the M.S. Addiction Policy & Practice program,…
