Community monitoring and advocacy in highly stigmatising circumstances: Eliminating institutional barriers for the improvement of quality of drug addiction treatment programmes in Macedonia

How can we encourage activism for the improvement of the quality of addiction treatment programmes among the most stigmatised group of citizens in Macedonia?

How can institutions be made to accept that people using drugs can be constructive participants in the process of improving the quality of drug addiction treatment programmes? How can drug policies be freed from ideological models of thinking and adapt to current trends and the needs of those concerned the most? According to the literature describing community monitoring and advocacy available on the internet, an impression is formed that disenfranchised communities should have the necessary motivation and capacity to independently mobilise themselves and jointly fight issues of common interest, but it is hard to bring this ideal model into reality in
which, evidently, wider social and political factors should be taken in consideration.

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