La fecha límite para las candidaturas a presentación el 17 de enero de 2025. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

The 18th annual ISSDP conference 11-13 June 2025, hosted by the Drugs, Policy, and Social Change (DPSC) research group at Manchester Metropolitan University, envisions a transformative dialogue on drug policy grounded in social justice. Our aim is to foster an inclusive platform where diverse voices from affected communities, practitioners, and policymakers converge to explore and address the complexities of drug policy processes and formation.

Social justice is important in drug policy to ensure that policies are fair, equitable, and inclusive, addressing the needs of all individuals, especially marginalised and vulnerable populations. Drug policy consistently shows that the most marginalised are disproportionately impacted and that many new reforms either exacerbate gaps or fail to reduce these gaps. Novel ways of thinking about how to improve social justice in drug policy is thus a key focus for this conference.

With ISSDP’s primary focus on connecting and facilitating world-leading drug policy research, the conference will also highlight novel methodological approaches to analysing drug policy and a broad range of scholarship across the drug market, incorporating use, supply, cultivation/production and trafficking as well as other sub-themes (see below).

The conference invites contributions from scholars from the Global North and the Global South. By doing so, it aims to promote a comprehensive understanding of drug policy issues worldwide and identifying ways to advance drug policy and practice.

18va Conferencia Anual de la Sociedad Internacional para el Estudio de las Políticas sobre Drogas (ISSDP)

Esta conferencia reúne perspectivas globales para avanzar el modelo de salas de consumo y políticas de reducción de daños basadas en derechos humanos. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

For almost 40 years, the Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) have been providing effective solutions in terms of harm reduction, human rights and public health.

Local actors, elected representatives and citizens make the opening of new DCRs worldwide possible through their commitment. Despite the many positive evaluations, the subject remains sensitive in the public debate.

This is why the City of Strasbourg, the Council of Europe's Pompidou Group and the Ithaque association are pleased to invite you to the fourth international symposium on drug consumption rooms, to be held on 18 and 19 June 2025 in the Hemicycle of the Council of Europe.

This conference continues the strong momentum started in 2019, bringing together more than 30 countries and 50 different cities at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Its aim is to promote the model of DCRs and to harmonize international policies around human rights and harm reduction. It offers the opportunity to share the diversity of experiences, the different legal frameworks and, their evolutions, and to put innovative practices into perspective.

Institutional actors and associations in the field, peoples who use drugs, local, national and international political leaders are all invited to attend and will be able to take the floor.

Simposio 2025 sobre salas de consumo seguro: un pilar de la reducción de daños y los derechos humanos

Recuperar poder. 
Resistir la injusticia. 
Reformar las políticas de drogas.

(El lema de la campaña ha sido traducido de muchísimas formas. En español suele también decirse Acompañe. No Castigue.

 es un pilar fundamental para la participación cívica y la rendición de cuentas en democracia. Durante más de una década, hemos impulsado un movimiento fuerte y descentralizado, que pone en el centro a las comunidades que desafían las políticas de drogas punitivas y defienden la reducción de daños.

El 26 de junio de 2025, te invitamos a sumarte una vez más a esta acción colectiva para construir alternativas sostenibles a la llamada «guerra contra las drogas».

¡Échale un vistazo al informe anual del año pasado para buscar ideas tácticas y de alto impacto!

Desde su inicio en 2013, esta movilización ha crecido de unas pocas ciudades a un ecosistema vibrante que el año pasado generó cambio en 295 ciudades de 85 países. 

Nuestras voces resuenan en las calles, en la radio y en los parlamentos

, a través de diálogos comunitarios, manifestaciones públicas, expresiones artísticas y debates políticos.

El Día de Acción Global es un momento de 

, uniendo fuerzas para rechazar el estigma y la injusticia, al tiempo que impulsamos cambios en leyes, políticas y prácticas que afectan el bienestar de nuestras comunidades.

 ¡Es hora de organizarse! En marzo lanzaremos nuestro habitual Llamado a expresiones de interés, una oportunidad para acceder a apoyo financiero y práctico. Al definir tu plan, ten presente que los 

objetivos concretos, estratégicos y bien estructurados

Este año trae desafíos adicionales: el congelamiento de fondos de cooperación internacional por parte de Estados Unidos impacta directamente en el movimiento de la reducción de daños. En este contexto, te invitamos a 

recurrir a la creatividad, reforzar alianzas y aprovechar al máximo tus redes de apoyo y solidaridad

. Los movimientos anti-derechos intentan debilitarnos, pero la historia demuestra que el poder popular es imparable. 

Seguiremos avanzando con acción directa, campañas mediáticas e incidencia política para recuperar poder, resistir la injusticia y reformar políticas de drogas dañinas. ¡Apoye, acompañe — no castigue!

RESPONDA AL LLAMADO A EXPRESIONES DE INTERÉS AQUÍ

Lanzamiento del Llamado a expresiones de interés:

Sigamos acompañándonos. Mantente al tanto. ¡Empecemos a preparar nuestras acciones desde ahora! 💚

Día de acción mundial de la campaña "Apoye. No Castigue" de 2025

La fecha límite para la presentación de resúmenes es el 2 de marzo de 2025. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Angela McBride, Executive Director at South African Network of People Who Use Drugs

Dr. Andrew Scheibe, Technical Advisor, TB HIV Care, Researcher, University of Pretoria.

We are thrilled to invite you to INHSU 2025, which will take place in our vibrant home city of Cape Town, South Africa. It marks INHSU’s first return to South Africa since a satellite conference—INHSU Africa—was held here in 2020, just before COVID-19. It was a pivotal moment for our community, and bringing the main conference here in 2025 will be a platform for the continued strengthening of community-led networks in the region on both local and national levels. It’s also a testament to INHSU’s continued growth into a global platform that meaningfully involves people who use drugs, with an increasing focus on representatives from Africa.

13ra Conferencia Internacional sobre Salud y Atención de la Hepatitis en Personas Usuarias de Sustancias - INHSU 2024

La conferencia convoca al creciente y dinámico movimiento de reforma de la política de drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.


Reform Drug Policy. Join us in Detroit. #Reform2025

The Reform Conference is the premier gathering of the growing and dynamic drug policy reform movement. Every other year, the 

 hosts this event, bringing together people working on the full range of drug policy issues from across the United States and around the world to listen, learn, and strategize. In 2025, the conference will take place in Detroit, Michigan from November 12-15.

We offer two scholarship programs to support the attendance of people directly impacted by the drug war and to ensure that the diversity of our movement is reflected in our Reform Conference attendees.

The scholarship funds are meant for people who are:

in need of financial assistance to attend the conference,

in a position to clearly benefit from going to the conference,

directly impacted by the drug war, and/or

already affiliated with a complimentary or allied movement, with a solid potential to take home new knowledge, skills and contacts that will benefit their local work in any and all issue areas of the drug policy reform movement.

The International Scholarships application 

 If you are based outside of the U.S. and need financial assistance to attend the Reform Conference, 

The National Scholarships applications will open after May 15th. If you are based in the U.S. and need financial assistance to attend the Reform Conference, we will have two applications available – one for individuals and one for groups planning to bring 4 or more people to the conference.

We strategized, built community, and organized around:

Decriminalizing Drugs and Building Health-Based Alternatives

Ensuring Our Systems Help, Not Hurt by Uprooting the Drug War from Our Daily Lives

Reinvesting Resources into Communities and Divesting from Punitive Police Responses

Rethinking and Reducing Punishment of People in the Drug Trade

Legalizing and Regulating Drugs the Right Way

 to see programs and videos from previous years.

Conferencia Internacional sobre la Reforma de las Políticas de Drogas 2025

La 23ª edición de ICASA busca fomentar respuestas integradas, innovadoras y basadas en derechos para poner fin al sida, la tuberculosis y la malaria, y fortalecer los sistemas de salud y la preparación ante pandemias. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

 Accra International Conference Centre(AICC)

 Catalysing Integrated Sustainable Responses to end AIDS, TB & Malaria.

Catalysing Africa’s progress towards triple elimination and sustainable resilient health systems through innovation and digital technologies.

Promote cooperation among governments, communities, the private sector, and international organizations to enhance health security and improve pandemic preparedness and response.

Strengthen capacity and facilitate knowledge exchange for healthcare professionals, researchers, and policymakers.

Empower communities and promote human rights and gender equality in the context of HIV/AIDS and emerging and reemerging diseases.

Mobilize domestic resources and political commitment to sustain Africa's progress towards achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets and global health security goals.

Eventos

18va Conferencia Anual de la Sociedad Internacional para el Estudio de las Políticas sobre Drogas (ISSDP)

Simposio 2025 sobre salas de consumo seguro: un pilar de la reducción de daños y los derechos humanos

Día de acción mundial de la campaña "Apoye. No Castigue" de 2025

13ra Conferencia Internacional sobre Salud y Atención de la Hepatitis en Personas Usuarias de Sustancias - INHSU 2024

Conferencia Internacional sobre la Reforma de las Políticas de Drogas 2025

23ra Conferencia Internacional sobre el Sida y las ITS en África (ICASA)