Martin O'Malley (Drug Policy)

O'Malley's Drug Policy (section page)

Drug Overdose and Addiction

• Reduce deaths from drug overdose by 25% by 2020 (MOW-AT)
• Establish a national dashboard to monitor the overdose and addiction problem, track nationwide responses, and target resources to increase access to critical services (MOW-AT)
  • Create and adopt a national strategy to reduce addiction to fentanyl (a deadly narcotic laced into heroin) within 100 days of taking office
• Stop the over-prescription of pain medications (MOW-AT)
  • Require physician training on pain prescribing
  • Strengthen prescription drug monitoring programs
  • Support patient education on pain
• Expand access to treatment (MOW-AT)
  • Expand access to Naloxone (a reversal drug used to treat overdoses from heroin and prescription opioids)
  • Equip all first responders with Naloxone and ensure all hospitals and first responders can quickly direct patients to effective addiction treatment options
  • Increase funding for effective therapies
  • Expand coverage of proven treatments under Medicare and Medicaid
  • Assure every veteran access to treatment within 12 hours
• Invest in community resources for recovery (MOW-AT)
  • Implement a public health response to addiction
  • Support community services
  • Launch a national campaign to reduce the stigma associated with drug addiction

Marijuana

• Supports the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of marijuana (DP)
• Supports the legalization of medical marijuana (DP)
• Wants to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug (DP)