G.D. Hancock, Ph.D.
Related Organizations
Where to find legal help, family support, and the organizations working to change these laws.
For families
If someone you love has been charged, or you have lost someone to an overdose, start here. These organizations work with people in that position.
Broken No More (opens in a new tab)
support
Families who have lost someone to overdose, working against prosecutions that treat the surviving user as a killer.
CAN-DO Foundation (opens in a new tab)
support
Advocates clemency for people serving long federal sentences for non-violent drug offenses, and documents individual cases.
FIRST-Network (opens in a new tab)
support
Collects near-real-time reports on conditions inside federal prisons, connects families to support and reentry resources, and presses the Bureau of Prisons to follow its own rules.
Drug-induced homicide law
Working directly on the statutes this site is concerned with.
Drug Policy Alliance (opens in a new tab)
policy
Campaigns to end criminalization of drug use, including work opposing drug-induced homicide charges brought against people who used alongside the deceased.
Health in Justice Action Lab (opens in a new tab)
data
Northeastern University lab studying how drug laws are enforced. It tracks drug-induced homicide prosecutions nationally; that dataset is on the research page.
Sentencing and mandatory minimums
Campaigning on the sentences these prosecutions carry.
FAMM (opens in a new tab)
policy
Founded as Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Advocates for sentencing reform and supports families affected by mandatory minimum sentences.
The Sentencing Project (opens in a new tab)
policy
Research and advocacy on sentencing policy, racial disparity in the justice system, and alternatives to incarceration.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (opens in a new tab)
legal help
Defense bar association producing legal resources and policy work on sentencing, forensic evidence, and the right to counsel.
Civil liberties and due process
On the constitutional questions these statutes raise.
American Civil Liberties Union (opens in a new tab)
legal help
Litigation and advocacy on criminal legal reform, including due process protections and the constitutional questions raised by strict-liability drug prosecutions.
Law Enforcement Action Partnership (opens in a new tab)
policy
Police, prosecutors and judges advocating for drug policy and criminal justice reform from inside the professions that administer it.
Restorative justice
The alternative the advocacy page argues for.
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (opens in a new tab)
practitioners
Association connecting restorative justice practitioners, researchers and programs across North America.
Research and data
Useful when a claim needs a source.
Prison Policy Initiative (opens in a new tab)
data
Non-profit producing data on mass incarceration, including state-by-state figures and analysis of who is held and why.
Vera Institute of Justice (opens in a new tab)
data
Research organization working with government on sentencing, jail populations, and alternatives to prosecution.
Datasets and practitioner resources
This page lists organizations. Datasets, case trackers and material written for practitioners — including the Health in Justice Action Lab’s drug-induced homicide project — are on the research page, alongside the scholarship.
About this list
These organizations have not reviewed this site, and their presence here does not mean they endorse its arguments or conclusions — nor does it mean Dr. Hancock endorses everything each of them advocates. The list is offered because their work bears on the same laws, and because families looking for help are often looking for somewhere other than a book.
Every link was checked before publication. If one has since broken, or an organization belongs here and is missing, please get in touch.