Subject

Health & harm reduction

HIT Hot Topics 2023

HIT Hot Topics 2023

Liverpool, United Kingdom
10 November 2023
HIT Hot Topics reunites hundreds of drug policy reform and harm reduction activists for a day of reflection and debate.
14 February 2023
Support, don’t punish: Drug decriminalization is harm reduction

Support, don’t punish: Drug decriminalization is harm reduction

Bratberg et al. highlight that decriminalisation offers advantages for pharmacists and their patients by breaking the cycle of despair caused by the justice system and encourages pharmacists to advocate for the implementation, evaluation, and expansion of decriminalisation policies.
1 February 2023
7th Brandenburg Forum on Drugs and Development Policies report

7th Brandenburg Forum on Drugs and Development Policies report

The Forum reunited government, UN and civil society experts to discuss development, health and human rights challenges in relation to drug control ahead of the 2024 mid-term review of implementation of the 2019 Political Declaration.
2 December 2022
Social workers as potential agents for drug policy reform

Social workers as potential agents for drug policy reform

Benjamin et al. call on social workers to advocate for and enact decriminalisation, harm reduction and community reinvestment in their practices, to detract their complicity in maintaining the status quo and instead provide anti-carceral, person-centred social work services.