R Street Responds

The R Street Responds series provides scholarly reviews of recently published studies, articles, policy-related proposals or critiques of our authors’ work.

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R Street Responds Harm Reduction, Opioid Harm Reduction

Research increasingly suggests compulsory drug abstinence programs are associated with increased risk for drug overdose, but their relationship to HIV risk is less clear.

Stacey McKenna Aug 17, 2021

R Street Responds Cannabis Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction, Tobacco Harm Reduction

An Unintended Consequence of Complete Flavor Bans: More Youth Smoking

Chelsea Boyd June 9, 2021

R Street Responds Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Harm Reduction, Jails, Opioid Harm Reduction, Opioids, Policing, Pretrial

Model shows incarceration an independent factor in HCV transmission among people who inject drugs

Stacey McKenna May 26, 2021

R Street Responds Harm Reduction, Tobacco Harm Reduction

The Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 Is a Blunt Instrument

Chelsea Boyd May 11, 2021

R Street Responds Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Harm Reduction, Northeast, Opioid Harm Reduction, Opioids, Policing, State Policy

What Massachusetts can teach us about police-assisted referral programs for substance use disorders

Stacey McKenna May 11, 2021

R Street Responds Clean Energy, Climate, Energy and Environment, Energy Subsidies, Federal Government Affairs

R Street Responds: The CLEAN Future Act

Josiah Neeley, Philip Rossetti March 25, 2021

R Street Responds Cannabis Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction

Legalizing recreational cannabis not associated with increased treatment admissions for other substances

Stacey McKenna March 19, 2021

R Street Responds Harm Reduction, Opioid Harm Reduction

Supervised consumption sites may do more than reduce drug-related harms

Dec 2, 2020

R Street Responds Climate, Energy and Environment

Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act may do more harm than good

Beth Garza, Philip Rossetti Nov 12, 2020

R Street Responds Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Policy, Federal Government Affairs, General Emerging Technologies, Technology and Innovation

Conspicuously Absent from the Recent U.S. National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies: Any Actionable Strategy

Kathryn Waldron, Tatyana Bolton Oct 26, 2020