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Dear friends,
On April 3rd, the Office of National Drug Control Policy released the 2025 Statement of Drug Policy Priorities. The priorities touch on many areas that are familiar to our work:
- Overdose prevention
- Education
- Treatment
- Long-term recovery
They also include a renewed focus on securing the global supply chain, tightening borders, and stopping the flow of illicit drugs into the U.S., especially fentanyl.
We know how deadly fentanyl has been in our community and across the country - we support efforts to save lives and prevent these substances from reaching our streets.
But we also know from experience that focusing only on supply - without addressing prevention, recovery, and long-term support - leaves critical gaps.
History has shown that punitive approaches have limited success in addressing addiction. Sustainable change comes from prevention, treatment, and recovery support.
While the latest national priorities emphasize the importance of services like ours, funding for those very services has continued to shrink.
Programs that connect people to recovery after treatment, offer peer support, and reduce harm are being cut at the very moment national strategy calls for more of them.
Still, we’re encouraged to see growing recognition of what actually helps people heal. And we remain hopeful that the resources will follow.
At Prevention Links, rest assured that we’ll keep doing what we’ve always done:
Centering the voices of people with lived experience, building community-based solutions, and advocating for approaches that treat addiction as a public health issue.
Thank you for standing with us.
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