Kellen is the director of public health at the Drug Policy Alliance, where he drives efforts to expand public health approaches to drug use, including increasing access to harm reduction interventions and evidence-based substance use disorder treatment. He has over 15 years of experience fighting to replace our harmful criminal approach to drugs with a public health approach. He lives in Orange County, California.
In 2022, over 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States—more than from firearms and vehicles combined. These…