… places across the country and learning lessons and seeing how the laws we have implemented impact people and treating it more as a health crisis than a criminal justice crisis. There's a general shift that we need to get away from over criminalization of substance abuse. It's very similar to the approach we had when we studied mental health very broadly two years ago, where we criminalize people who have mental illness and maybe intersect, you … (00:44–00:50)
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Asserts that there is a need to shift away from over-criminalization of substance abuse.
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