Biography
Sally Friedman is the Senior Vice President of Legal Advocacy at the Legal Action Center, a non-profit organization that uses legal and policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with arrest and conviction records, substance use disorders, and HIV or AIDS. Ms. Friedman has litigated precedent-setting cases such as Beckett v. Aetna, a class action lawsuit challenging Aetna’s violation of over 13,000 members’ HIV privacy rights, and Innovative Health Systems v. City of White Plains, a federal lawsuit establishing that the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits using zoning laws to exclude facilities serving people with disabilities. She has worked extensively to reduce barriers to medications for opioid use disorder. Her publications include Ending Medical Complicity with Skilled Nursing Facility Discrimination Against People with Opioid Use Disorder, Legality of Denying Access to Medication Assisted Treatment in the Criminal Justice System, Medication-Assisted Treatment in Drug Courts: Recommended Strategies, and Defense Lawyers and the Opioid Epidemic: Advocating for Addiction Medication.