Scottish Drugs Forum
Network members
SDF provides an overview of range of what we do and who we work with to help prevent damaging drug use and promoting sustainable recovery from drug problems.
Members
Our membership has been growing organically since IDPC was set up in 2006. Members can be NGOs, academic institutions, think tanks or professional networks, but they must have a national or international outlook, and a credible track record in the drug policy field.
There are no membership fees, but all members need to be committed to supporting the IDPC vision and mission, strategic directions, policy principles and work plan.
IDPC has two types of membership:
IDPC Partner Members
Partner Members are organisations that play a more active role in IDPC’s day-to-day work. These members have the skills, capacity and contacts to engage governments and international organisations on drug policy reform. This level of membership includes clear expectations in terms of involvement in consultations, efficient communication and contribution to the advocacy work. As a result, the selection of Partner Members will be based on the level of engagement of the organisation in IDPC’s work, geographical representation (with no more than one Partner Member per country in most cases), and thematic relevance.
IDPC Network Members
Network Members are organisations that are mostly involved in IDPC’s communications work at a less intensive level. These members receive all IDPC communications, and are involved in exchange of ideas and information, and joint planned activities. These members will be able to use the IDPC alerts and website to promote their work, and will help share IDPC’s news, publications and products with their own contacts. IDPC will usually welcome organisations as Network Members in the first instance, rather than as Partner Members.
United Kingdom
International Doctors for Healthy Drug Policies (IDHDP)
Partner members
IDHDP aims to provide the voice of doctors to advocate for changes in harmful drug policies and to promote harm reduction and policies based on health, science, human rights and compassion.
International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Partner members
INPUD is a global network of people who use and have used drugs. INPUD has an evolving regional network structure and also strong ties with a number of national and local drug user organisations. A key role of the organisation is to support people who use drugs to access and take part in international policy processes.
Release
Partner members
Release is the UK centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law - providing free and confidential specialist advice to the public and professionals. Release also campaigns for changes to UK drug policy to bring about a fairer and more compassionate legal framework to manage drug use in our society.
Transform
Partner members
Transform exists to promote sustainable health and wellbeing by bringing about a just, effective and humane system to regulate and control drugs at local, national and international levels.
Youth RISE
Partner members
Youth R.I.S.E is a youth-led international network established to reduce the risks and harms associated with substance use and drug policy amongst young people and provide a platform for young people to be engaged in the policies that affect their lives.
Frontline AIDS
Network members
Frontline AIDS is an innovative, global partnership of nationally-based, independent civil society organisations that work together to mobilise communities against HIV and AIDS. We are united in one mission: Supporting community action on HIV, health and human rights to end AIDS.
Beckley Foundation
Partner members
From its inception in 1998, the Beckley Foundation has had a dual purpose: to expand our understanding how psychoactive substances work in the brain, and to reform global drug policy.
Health Poverty Action
Network members
Health Poverty Action is an international development which aims to strengthen poor and marginalised people in their struggle for health.
Penal Reform International
Network members
Penal Reform International is an international non-governmental organisation that develops and promotes fair, effective and proportionate responses to criminal justice problems worldwide.
Reprieve
Network members
Reprieve is an international legal action charity. Reprieve's mission is to use strategic interventions to fight the use of the death penalty, secret prisons and targeted assassinations by governments, whilst challenging the notion that such abuses can ever be justified.
Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA)
Network members
WHPCA is a network of national and regional hospice and palliative care organisations and affiliate organisations, which mission is to foster, promote and influence the delivery of affordable, quality palliative care.
European Network of People who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD)
Network members
The European Network of People who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD) is a regional network representing people who use drugs in Northern, Southern, and Western Europe. EuroNPUD has evolved in order to challenge the widespread misinformation, discrimination and marginalisation of people who use drugs in communities throughout the European Union. As part of a long and proud history of drug user organising in Europe, EuroNPUD aims to provide a platform for networks and groups from across the EU to act collectively on issues of political and social importance
Recovering Justice
Network members
Recovering Justice was established in 2013 by people in recovery from problematic substance use to focus primarily on drug policy reform in the UK. We believe that the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs is inhumane, ineffective counterproductive and costly. It is also one of the biggest barriers to people getting into and maintaining recovery. Our mission is to end stigma and marginalisation through policy change and advocate for drug policy reform that focuses on human rights and health approaches. Our vision is to find peaceful solutions to end the war on drugs which will help end the stigma, incarceration and punishment of human beings, creating opportunities and environments for people to find the best ways to recover and transform their lives. Backed by international evidence and informed by personal experience we work towards a policy position which treats people with compassion and understanding rather than punishment Recovering Justice brings the voices of current and former drug users and their families together to empower them to use their experiences in a positive way for change. By making the personal political we engage and inform those in power and policy makers on evidence-based alternatives.