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In 2025, Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City after being elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-drug-addiction-onpoint-harm-reduction/ “Just two months after taking office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited OnPoint to show support for the program. ‘This weekend, the team at OnPoint NYC kept their doors open 24/7 so vulnerable New…
Humphreys was a psychologist and senior policy advisor for the Obama administration. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560083795/president-trump-may-declare-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency “Dr. Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and a former adviser in the Obama administration, calls the Trump administration’s response ‘pathetic,’ saying it mostly repurposes…
LBJ was a member of the Texas National Council on Alcoholism (NCA), which meant he was a valuable connection for Marty Mann.
Taft said in a speech to Congress that cocaine was leading to the most serious drug crisis America had ever seen, at least by the year 1910. When Taft was the governor general of the Philippines, he wanted to bring back a monopoly on opium to have a regulated supply in the place of foreign imports that emerged during the Spanish-American War. Religious leaders like Bishop Charles Henry Brent…
The New York State Commissioner of Mental Hygiene from 1975 to 1978
An AA member openly in recovery, Harold Hughes was elected to the Senate and helped Marty Mann and William Wilson (Bill W.) testify before Congress.
Most known for the Moynihan Report, a 1965 report that studied poverty in African-American communities and concluded that, rather than structural or systemic momentum from an explicit racial hierarchy, the primary reasons for continued cycles of poverty could be attributed to problems with “ghetto culture.” William J. Ryan responded to the report with a major rebuttal in his 1971 book Blaming the…
When he was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, he purchased crack on camera to show how easy it is to buy drugs.
Increase Mather, a Puritan colonial minister, called alcohol a good “creature of God” while drunkenness was “from Satan.”
Jerome Jaffe was once Richard Nixon’s drug Czar.
While a temperate drinker himself, Franklin noted “for our RUM does the same Mischief in proportion, as their GENEVA.”
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President Trump cites the unfortunate early death of his brother Fred in his own claim to abstinence from drinking and drugs.
Possibly one of the most famous addicts alive right now.