The mayor formed the the Monday’s Round, a committee that brought some traditionally adversarial groups together to work on drug policy. In Frankfurt, Germany, in 1988, the city took a new approach to coming up with a solution for the growing drug problem. “If you start to look at the history of what’s going on with municipal drug strategies around the world, you find that there’s something about creating a municipal drug strategy that’s actually not new at all,” sayegh said. “Cities and countries around the world, particularly in the Western world, Europe and Canada and Australia, have been doing this for some time.” At that time, he said, people felt like officials at the state and federal level were not doing enough, “so it fell upon the cities to take action.” While that problem might sound familiar in the United States today, sayegh was referring to Germany in the late 1980s. Local leaders, members of the committee and drug policy advocates gathered to share the need for a municipal drug plan and explain how such strategies have worked across Canada, Europe and Australia. The night before The Ithaca Plan was unveiled, the back theater of Cinemapolis in Ithaca was packed with community members who came to hear about Ithaca’s new strategy for a growing epidemic and also hear the context of the plan. Though creating a municipal drug strategy and employing some of the more controversial elements of the plan are new for the United States, municipal plans and strategies - like creating a supervised injection facility - have been tried with success for decades in other parts of the globe. See 'Subscription Support' in the app's Settings for more details and customer service contact information.The release of The Ithaca Plan, the city’s new municipal drug policy strategy, attracted national headlines for some of its “outrageous” concepts. It’s garnered praise, criticism, lots of questions and even spurred some on Fox News to call for a recall election of city Mayor Svante Myrick. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. You can manage your subscriptions and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Questions or Comments: Subscriptions are charged to your account at confirmation of purchase and automatically renew each month or year, unless turned off in your account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.And access to USA TODAY and 200+ local eNewspapers. eNewspaper: Just like our print edition but accessible on your mobile devices.Customize your experience by saving your favorite stories, adjusting text size, using night mode, or reading offline.

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