Who: Anyone who wants better prevention, treatment and recovery services for those struggling with a substance use disorder
What: The Maryland legislature will convene on January 14th. We need representatives from around the state to meet with their elected officials prior to that, as well as during the session, to educate them on the issues and let them know why these issues are a top priority. We stand a better chance of being successful if we can get everyone on board with a single policy agenda, a good strategic plan, and a unified voice’
When: Sunday, December 28th
10:30 — 11:00 Meet fellow advocates from around the state. Enjoy pastries, muffins and bagels with juice and coffee, compliments of Heroin Action Coalition.
11:00 — 12:30 Members of Heroin Action Coalition will present a unified policy agenda comprised of issues that advocates from around the state have been working on.
Jason DeLizio, a Maryland lobbyist, will present an overview of how the legislature works, and how we can best impact the process to achieve our goals in 2015.
Where: The State House Inn
25 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401-1904
(410) 990-0024
Why: Overdose death is now the leading cause of unexpected death in the state –higher than car crash fatalities, homicides, or suicides.
Our children continue to die at an unprecedented rate, without an adequate response from our state leaders or a comprehensive strategy for solving the problem.
In order for better prevention, treatment and recovery services to become a reality, our voice must be heard by those committed to serving us –our elected officials!
–If they do not know our story, If we fail to ask for what we want –they cannot give us what we need!
R.S.V.P. to Lisa Lowe, Heroin Action Coalition
heroinactioncoalition@gmail.com
301-525-6183
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Admirable effort but I am not sure any legislation of educational efforts will affect the milieu of our inner city (as well as affluent ) streets. Of course we should not let that discourage the effort. I think an underlying issue here is that elected officials even have to be advised of the matter. Don’t they know their own districts? Don’t they have kids in school? Or are they immune to evils behind their gated communities? In Miami there have been 18 drive-by shootings in the last two weeks. Like, who doesn’t know ? Authorities need to be educated about such? In Miami, “Say No to Drugs”, “Say No to AIDS”, “Say No to Violence” etc have been part of school curriculum for 20 years. Nothing’s gotten better because that “it won’t happen to me” belief prevails.
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Many of them are engaged in mega corruption and they don’t seem to care. Wow! Miami can do better. The charter schools fiasco seem to be out of control as well. We can do better on these issues. The slogan part needs to be backed up by real actions.
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Children here like most cities grow up knowing that they could be killed any day or that friends will be. Last two weeks 18 drive-by shootings. As far as school planning goes the bureaucrats and politicians make the decisions when the best and most qualified and sensitive to needs are the classroom teachers but no one is interested in listening. Or even asking. I did 33 years high school. Sometimes I wish I had gone career Army like most of my college fraternity brothers. I might have been safer in Vietnam.
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