DPFOK SPEAKER LIST

Nancy Pellow, Legislative Analyst, Oklahoma State Senate- "THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS: How Reform Legislation is Initiated", Dec. 1998

Susan F. Sharp, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, OU: "THE INCARCERATED WOMAN" – Feb. 2002

Billy McDowell, Internationally recognized alcohol/drug researcher and implementer of treatment stategies- "UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION/DEPENDENCY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO DRUG POLICIES" , Nov. 1998

Tom Stephenson, Law Office of Stephenson and Webber, trial lawyer 33 years, Juris Doctorate, Master Liberal Arts- "IS CRIMINALIZATION THE ANSWER TO DRUGS? ARE PRISONS CHEAPER THAN REHABILITATION?

Rep. Ron Kirby: "OKLAHOMA DRUG POLICIES AND THE BUDGET SHORTFALL" – March 2002

Charles Key, Director, Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA)

Lynn Powell: Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants

Dr. Terry Cline, Commissioner, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: UNTREATED SUBSTANCE ABUSE: THE FISCAL IMPACT ON OKLAHOMA

Bob Ward: Lawyer, former district attorney, judge, and specialist in constitutional law- " THE LEGAL DESTRUCTION OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS...the erosion of civil rights in the U.S.", May 2000

Dr. Gordon Deckert, Dept. of Psychiatry, OU Health Science Center: THE DRUG WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH – March, 2001

Jack Cole, retired policeman, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) – June, 2003

Ron Dahlgren, President o North Central Affiliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI): "MENTAL ILLNESS AND ADDICTION" – Sept. 2003

Wes Johnson, Attorney, Tulsa, OK, LEAP speaker – Oct. 2003

Rev. Michael Bartley, Wesley Foundation Director: "WHAT WOULD JESUS SAY ABOUT THE WAR ON DRUGS?" – Jan.2004

Roger D. Hudlin, police officer in Kansas: THE D.A.R.E. PROGRAM – March, 2004

Tom Walker and Bo Don Cox, former prison inmates – April, 2004

Dianne Hunter, Oklahoma Project Coordinator, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, " FITTING THE TIME TO THE CRIME" – June, 2004

Monte Johnson, Salisaw lawyer: "METHAMPHETAMINE: SHOULD WE PROHIBIT OR LEGALIZE?" Oct. 2004 Norma Sapp. Lobbyist from Norman: "THE STATE OF THE STATE: LEGISLATION IN THE COMING SESSION" – Nov. 2004

Donna Woods Bauer, Executive Director, Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Treatment and Recovery (OCARTA): "HEADS IN THE SAND: COMMUNITY DRUG AWARENESS" – Dec. 2004. See brief movie.

Rep. Lee Denney and Cathy Liska, Effect Services: "ARE PUNITIVE SCHOOL POLICIES HELPING OR HURTING OUR KIDS?" Feb. 2005

K.C. Moon, Director, Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center, and Jim Drummond, lawyer,member of the Oklahoma Sentencing Commission: "OKLAHOMA’S PUNITIVE DRUG POLICIES" – March, 2005

Julie Geddes, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health ant Substance Abuse: "STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS" – May, 2005

Ben Brown, Deputy Commissioner of Substance Abuse Services, State Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services- " Substance Abuse- A Plan For The Future"

Joann Bell, Executive Director, ACLU of Oklahoma- "THE WAR ON DRUGS" Feb. 1999

Roland Treat, Administrative Director, Starting Point ll, Stillwater, OK, Certified Advanced Counselor and Administrator for the State of Oklahoma- "CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY TREATMENT AND NEEDED REFORMS" April, 1999

Robert Murphy, Associate District Judge, Payne County- THE INTERPRETATION OF DRUG LAWS FROM A JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE", March, 1999

Dr. John Cross, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, "THE EVOLUTION OF THE 'DRUG FIEND' IN THE U.S....ITS IMPACT ON THE 4th AMENDMENT" May, 1999

State Rep. Al Lindley and State Senator Jim Wilson--"You Can't Treat Addiction as a Crime" September 2005

Judge Ray Wall (retired)-- "Taking Personal Responsibility...Easy to Say, Hard to Do For Both Addict and Community" October 2005.

Rev. Thea Nietfeld, Unitarian Universalist Church, Tahlequah, OK--"Ethnics and Drug policy - A Discussion" November 2005

Rev. Valerie Ackerman, Unitarian Universalist, Tulsa--"Hidden Agenda: How the War on Drugs Perpetuates Poverty"

Dr. John Duncan, Chief Agent for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control--"Drugs and the Brain." March 2006