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Hall Center Response to Opioid Crisis Lauded by Former Indiana Chief Justice
12/18/2017
The Hall Center for Law and Health at the IU McKinney School of Law is focused on the opioid crisis, which in Indiana now claims more lives than auto accidents.
Hall Center Executive Director Nicolas Terry, Hall Render Professor of Law, will be part of the leadership team for Responding to the Addiction Crisis, a $50 million IU initiative launched last month.
Former Chief Justice Randall Shepard wrote in a December 9, 2017 column, “Indiana leaders are rising to fight opioid crisis,” in the Indianapolis Business Journal that the legal profession—and IU McKinney faculty and students—will have a substantial role to play in the initiative.
“The Hall Center has already been focusing on opioids,” he wrote. “The current issue of its Health Law Review features a remarkable student note by recent graduate Nick J. Erickson analyzing substance abuse treatment programs in Indiana’s correction facilities and suggesting avenues for improvement and further analysis.”
Shepard also noted that the November Hall Center Grand Rounds lecture by Northeastern University Professor Leo Beletsky, a nationally known expert on evaluating the role of public health programs and law enforcement practices in combating abuse, drew a full house.
Read the Indiana Health Law Review note by alumni Nick J. Erickson, '17, and read Shepard’s full IBJ editorial.
Learn more about the Responding to the Addiction Crisis initiative.
