Ernst Duker, pioneer in the field of public health who is close to drug addiction with mercy, and stimulating needle programs to stop the AIDS epidemic and diagnose the devastating effect of what he called “the plague” from a mass imprisonment, on January 26 in which the house in Manhattan. It was 84.
His son Jesse Duker said that the reason was the complications of dementia.
For more than three decades, Dr. Duker, who suffers from epidemiological evidence, launched advanced campaigns to improve many prison prisoners; Displayed sick people who suffer from tuberculosis; Workers are exposed to asbestos; And drug users with HIV and their families, who were flammable due to AIDS repercussions. He was an early supporter and audio to rethink the country’s illegal drug approach, and defends “damage” – a strategy that gives priority to reducing negative consequences for criminal prosecution.
He was a clinical psychiatrist through training, and he was a pride professor of family medicine and social medicine at the Montefior Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx and was a great researcher in staying at the John Jae Gay Forensic College in the city from New York in Manhattan, where the bike is to work from The upper western side.
Dr. Helen Gayel, the epidemic scientist and former president of the Sailman College in Atlanta, described Dr. Duker in this way in an email to his son: “He is not recognized about facing the issues that others will not touch. I apologize about humanity in all of them, including those who have suffered from more Injustice.
After running a program to rehabilitate drugs in Bronx, Dr. Duker was closely known for the destructive capabilities of addiction drugs. But the criminal prosecution of addicts, he said, only doubled the problem, forcing addicts underground, as dangerous practices such as the sharing of needles led to the spread of HIV, and reduced them with criminal records that could make them unemployed.
“Our heroin demonic has turned into benign patterns and can be controlled for use in a deadly gamble and raised the threshold to ask for help when the problems arise,” he wrote in a letter to New York Times In 1995, “other countries adopt strategies” to reduce damage “(without drug codification) that recognize them widely and use methods (such as needle exchange) to make the injection -safer use more.”
He added that “our stubborn failure to recognize the constant stabbing of drugs, and learn how to control (instead of prohibiting) using them” had tragic consequences.
Instead, he claimed in his book “Places of Prisons: The Permits of Collective Prison in America” (2011), that for 90 percent of drug crimes that are not violent “, he could be replaced by a general health criminalism and a therapeutic model.”
Dr. Duker created some of the first injection exchange programs in the world, and in 1991, after testifying in their favor, four members of the AIDS coalition for the launch of power, known as ACT UP, were acquitted in Jersey City, New Jersey, of relevant charges to run the exchange program The needle to prevent the spread of AIDS.
He warned that the AIDS epidemic was not only homosexual men, but was also increasingly destroying poor and non -white families. He said that the relations between two different sexes in some Bronx neighborhoods have become a form of “Russian Russian roulette”, which was an orphan children.
“No one, through a long snapshot, outperforms more new ideas for research, politics and advocacy, many of which led to influential publications, new organizations and politics changes in all aspects of reducing damage as well as drug therapy, and public health, Ethan A. Nadilman said, The founder of the drug policy coalition, which opposed the war on drugs, in an email: “Criminal Justice Reform.”
Dr. Duker was the founder and president of the world’s physicians/the United States of America from 1993 to 1997, and he was the President of the Founding Editorial Board in the Journal of Obligation, and founder of the founder The International Association for the Reduction of Countries.
In his praise, Professor David Michaels of the Milkin Public Health College at George Washington University and former Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Dr. Drucch was “The true Renaissance man for public health, driven by deep commitment to fairness and justice. Reducing the damage, and insists on not punishing people and the decisions they make, but instead we should help them become healthier and more fulfilled.
Ernest Moore Duker was born on March 29, 1940, in Brooklyn. His father, Joseph, was a mechanic for ITT. His wife, Beatrice (Strol) Draker, runs the family.
Ernst grew up in the Brighton Beach department in Boro, and graduated from Brooklyn Technical Secondary School with plans to become an engineer, but he was attracted towards psychology as a pioneer at City College in New York, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 1962 followed by a doctorate.
In Monense/Einstein, where he was a student DRS. H. Jack Jack and Victor SeedelHe was supportive of health care for the poor, and was the director of health and public policy research and the founding director of the drug treatment program 1,000, where he served until 1990.
He was invented by himself professionally, and turned his focus to and from heroin addiction, public health, occupational safety, AIDS, and alternatives to prison.
In addition to his son, Jesse, the investigating correspondent of the New York Times, he survived his wife Jerry (Rosner) Draker, artist; His brother, Alan Duker; And two grandchildren.
