Community strengthening

Publications3 December 2025

Global State of Harm Reduction: 2025 update to key data

Harm Reduction International discusses a 'global paradox' in which growing policy recognition and community resilience collide with devastating funding cuts that now threaten decades of harm reduction progress.

Events

Harm reduction across South-Eastern Europe: struggle and hope beyond the numbers

Online

25 November 2025

This webinar examines the crossroads facing harm reduction in South-Eastern Europe, shining a light on service shutdowns, innovation, and the community resilience keeping people alive.

Publications23 November 2025

EU Strategy for Civil Society

The EU’s new Civil Society Strategy delivers a boost to frontline organisations and underlines the commitment to protecting civil society space, fostering official mechanisms of engagement with EU institutions, and supporting funding.

News12 November 2025

Canada: 'Hung out to dry' — DULF pair convicted but plan challenge

Despite proving their compassion club prevented overdoses, DULF founders were convicted and now plan a Charter challenge against the criminalisation of harm reduction.

Events

Harm reduction for social development: Strengthening health, workability, and inclusion

Online

4 November 2025 - 4 November 2025

This webinar positions harm reduction as a strategic pathway for cross-sector development, improving climate, health, and socio-economic outcomes.

News20 October 2025

UK Green party leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs

Polanski argues that legalisation would promote a 'public health' response and reduce drug-related crime, as his party’s support continues to rise across the UK.

Publications6 October 2025

Safeguarding rights in EU drug policy - Contribution to the European Commission's call for evidence on the EU drugs strategy and action plan against drug trafficking

IDPC calls on the European Commission to ensure the next Strategy is balanced, evidence-based, and rights-centred, prioritising harm reduction, civil society participation, and policy innovation over punitive approaches.

Events

19th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) 2026 Conference

Perth, Australia

7 October 2025 - 2 July 2025

The ISSDP 2026 conference is set to take place from June 30 to July 2 in Perth, Australia and its call for abstracts is open until November 30, 2025.

Blog30 September 2025

Practising liberatory harm reduction: From street-level care to policy reform advocacy

In Cavite, liberatory harm reduction means building care and justice from the streets up — from mutual aid to drug policy reform, survival practices grow into movements for dignity and change.

News30 September 2025

Reimagining drug policy with compassion and justice

Successful drug policies replace punishment with support and control with care—rooted in dignity, justice, and the leadership of people and communities most affected.

News25 September 2025

As ASEAN drug policy transitions, where will the Philippines stand?

Punitive drug policies in ASEAN have failed to achieve ‘drug-free’ goals, while harm reduction offers a pragmatic, rights-based alternative already showing results in the region — albeit torpedoed by Singapore's hardline stance.

News3 September 2025

RIP Louise Vincent, harm reduction hero & visionary

Louise Beale Vincent, a deeply beloved and invaluable activist, Executive Director of the National Survivors Union and the North Carolina Survivors Union, passed away.

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