All People’s Health Collective podcast co-host, Susan Li, is joined in conversation with Gretchen Berman, co-founder and executive director of A New Path, a non-profit advocacy organization of parents, concerned citizens, individuals in recovery, healthcare professionals and community leaders working together to educate the public, media and decision makers about the true nature of the disease of addiction, and to expand access to treatment services. A New Path advocates to end discriminatory drug policies that serve as roadblocks to recovery.

Vanessa Ramos of Disability Rights California and the All People’s Health Collective joins podcast co-host Susan Li to discuss the deep concerns about the implementation of CA Prop 1 at the intersection of California’s Behavioral Health Services Act and substance use disorder.

Vanessa Ramos of Disability Rights California and the All People’s Health Collective joins podcast co-host Susan Li to discuss how services in California are failing to provide people with the care and supports they need and warehousing people in cruel, isolating, and coercive locked facilities instead—sometimes for years.

Vanessa looks at the lessons that can be learned from the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment system and offers a vision of organized care that holistically addresses what people actually need—a spectrum of services, resources, housing, community, family, creativity, and more—to be healthy and well.