2024
SUPPORT – AB 2115 (Haney) –Controlled Substances: Clinics
Letter to Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure – Review of 201 KAR 9:270 (buprenorphine regulation)
2023
The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
Cosponsor of the Temporary Emergency Scheduling and Testing of Fentanyl Analogues Act of 2023
2022
A Call for the FDA to Retract its Safety Communication Regarding Buprenorphine
2021
End the Fatal Paradox: Change the Names of our Federal Institutes on Addiction
Letter to State Officials: COVID and Harm Reduction
Letter in Opposition to Biden FRS Proposal
2020
AMERSA is concerned about the exponential harm caused by criminal justice actions pursued against persons who use drugs during pregnancy. We are committed to supporting and advocating for the rights and protections of pregnant persons and their families. AMERSA joined the Drug Policy Alliance in April 2020 and again in June 2020 in signing onto an urgent bail-related amicus brief in the case of The State of California v. Chelsea Cheyenne Becker, whose defense is being supported by National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). In October 2020, AMERSA again joined the Drug Policy Alliance in signing onto another bail-related amicus brief in the case of Audora Perez.
UPDATE: On March 9, 2021, Kings County Superior Court Judge Robert Shane Burns granted Chelsea Becker’s request to be released on her own recognizance so that she can enter a residential treatment facility, but her legal fight continues. Read the full statement.
- DPA Amicus Letter Support Becker Petition Review Denial Writ Prohibition
- DPA Amicus Letter Support Becker Petition for Review Habeas
- 10.21.20 DPA Amicus Brief
- 7.8.20 DPA Amicus Brief
- 7.9.20 DPA Amicus Brief 2
Addressing Access to Care in the Opioid Epidemic and Preventing a Future Recurrence