Tuesday, 22 April 2025 / 13:00 - 14:30 (London time - 

: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iTZ2PohuRKG5ESpqaafgkA 

Join us for a debrief session on the 68th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to discuss progress, gridlocks and potential ways forward for the UN drug control regime.

CND68 and drug policy reform: Unpacking key implications

The Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) will be held in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025.

In October 2023, Colombia’s new government announced a bold new drug policy that broke away from the war on drugs. It focussed on opportunity and justice.

Among other things the new policy looked to: prevent deforestation linked to drug trafficking; help transition small farmers to the legal economy; and tackle drug use with a focus on public health and human rights.

The Harm Reduction International Conference is going to Colombia to support a country that is taking the leap towards a new paradigm and to learn from the country and region.

Harm Reduction International Conference 2025

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.

18th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP)

Reclaim power. Resist injustice. Reform drug laws.

The Support. Don’t Punish campaign is a lifeline for democratic 

. For over a decade, we have organised a powerful and decentralised movement that centres communities challenging punitive drug policies and advocating for harm reduction.

On 26 June 2025, we invite you to join us once more in collective action to build sustainable alternatives to the ‘war on drugs’.

Our journey started back in 2013 and has developed from mobilisation in a couple of dozen cities to a vibrant ecosystem that last year sparked change in 

 worldwide! From community dialogues, to public demonstrations, artistic expressions, and policy discussions, 

our voices thunder through streets, radio shows and parliaments alike!

— bringing us together to oppose stigma and injustice, while fostering change in laws, policies and practices that undermine our communities’ wellbeing.

Are you ready for 2025? Now is the time to prepare! 

Our habitual ‘Call for Expressions of Interest’ will open in March, offering opportunities to receive financial and practical support for your activities. As you develop your reasoning, remember that 

This year is atypical as the US foreign aid freeze poses significant challenges to the harm reduction movement. As we navigate pain and uncertainty, we invite you to be 

and, more than ever, reach out to existing 

and solidarity. The anti-rights movement may want us diminished, but history shows that 

. Whether through direct action, media campaigns, or political advocacy, we will continue to reclaim power, resist injustice and reform harmful drug laws. 

Hold on to each other. Stay tuned for updates. Start planning now! 💚

Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action 2025

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.

13th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INSHU 2025)

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.

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference took place October 18-21, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. Attendees spent three days building community with people committed to finding alternatives to the war on drugs while participating in sessions given by leading experts from around the world. More than 1,500 attendees representing over 50 countries joined us!

 and to strategize and mobilize reform with you in 2023.

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.

Events

CND68 and drug policy reform: Unpacking key implications

Harm Reduction International Conference 2025

18th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP)

Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action 2025

13th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INSHU 2025)

International Drug Policy Reform Conference 2025