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“For the first time, a country has taken steps to regulate content on streaming media services to protect people from tobacco, the world’s leading preventable killer. Netflix and other services expose billions to content that glamorizes tobacco. We applaud India for taking this bold, first step, and encourage other governments to follow.”

Statement from José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2023.

Selected youth fellows will provide harm reduction education and advocate for accessible, evidence-based drug policies, especially among young people from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color. 

Vital Strategies announced its first set of Kentucky-based projects as part of a five-year, $10 million commitment to expanding harm reduction approaches and reducing overdose deaths in the state.

Ultimately, the Racial Equity Workgroup will produce a set of recommendations for the Michigan Opioids Taskforce. The workgroup will be supported by a team from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Vital Strategies, Michigan Liberation, and Reframe Health and Justice.