My name is Kathryn Martucci on the director of policy and programs at the alliance for Health Policy at i had the pleasure of welcoming you all on behalf of the alliance to our Breakfast Series for reporters. For those who are not thinly withfo the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating Health Policy community through a Balance Exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce and Apco Worldwide for supporting the alliance and put it on this syrians with that support weve had the privilege of hosting many 15 guests and Panel Discussion over the past couple of years, including joe grogan and we are honored to welcome back to be properly you have the decision being our first repeat guest picky joined us about a year ago when is an associate director at omb and to look for doing about your new role and healthcare priorities as a director of the Domestic Policy Council. So thank you for being here again. Thank you to all of you for be
Very often night clubs have smoking sections and now w you have to be a certain amount of feet away from 9 doors of establishment. How do we reduce smoking or how do businesses deal with the infiltration of smoke coming into the building decreasing smoking is a difficult task. The primary reason theyve got cigarettes that are artifical and their illegal in clubs and businesses and they dont cause Secondhand Smoke thats one of the primary drivers of not allowing smoking inside. Potentially advocating for using e cigarettes is one way to prevent smoking from bag as prominent. Ive seen many, many people are switching to e cigarettes now. Thank you very much. Any other comments from commissioners. Commissioner lee. I think the e cigarettes are great but theres leave people in the club that mistake it for regular smoking. Weve had this problem before we would just for our policy wed let everybody smoke outside whether its an e cigarette or not. But if youre circulating the crowd would you f
M a. We can help provide some knowledge of what people are ingesting. Ive seen people have things they died not to take and anytime that happens thats potentially an ambulance ride from that at the worse a death. So i see those are some of the areas of Harm Reduction we can apply in the night you community. We try to minimize that harm great is that the end of your presentation. Thank you very much. I have a question. So ive been aware of dan sins youve started i was one of the first clubs you approached. My club was townsend back in the day all the things you advocate like water and save sex and the like great we put out condemns. Back in that day i didnt expect this you set up a table where they tested for field drugs i have an Entertainment Permit and drugs are illegal. I stood to be put out of business because you have your process so if you want clurgz clubs that have licenses by the nature of their business controlled by the state of california how do you provide Services Without
Would just for our policy wed let everybody smoke outside whether its an e cigarette or not. But if youre circulating the crowd would you follow the policy of what the policies that ask people to go outside. It helps a policy to abide by. When ive had remember the parties and things like that i dont think how you feel about that but wed search everybody to stop drugs if coming in. We dont do a thorough search we kind of see other people that may have gotten by and maybe see, you know, educate or mitigate problems . I guess first, we dont specifically tell people to smoke inside or outside thats a question from commissioner joseph. But if thats the pole i recommend people follow. As to the other question obviously venues need to try to be within the law and, you know, 06r789s search people for laughness and thats fine. With respect to us if we see people with drugs after theyre inside and telling the venue thats unfortunately would erode trust between us and the patrons. Well just tryin
Make our testing not responsible for the license hes vocation and stuff like that its not us its the drug policy through the 0 nonprofit. In terms of where were going forward. Were trying to increase awareness that Harm Reduction is necessary and increase awareness of drug education in general among the populace. We released a mobile app thats essentially like a phone version of love our information. Were trying to increase the information on the substances. Because of due to the prohibition of common drugs theirs on a arms race to create new drugs like meth doctrine and meth lone were made legal by Congress Last year but theres an influx of new drugs like a b e and etc. , so trying to stay on top of new drugs and to really educate people that we know nothing about those drugs for the most part and, you know, they might have a psych actually effects as a result of mixing them with other drugs commissioner joseph. Just one other question you mentioned in your presentation smoking. We th