As lockdown restrictions deepen inequalities and increase the risk of already vulnerable communities, homeless people who use drugs struggle to survive.
Community-based organisations play a crucial role both in overcoming the fear of stigma and discrimination and in advocating for harm reduction and human rights.
As people who use drugs are targeted by vigilante groups and forced into treatment, harm reduction services are even more important during the COVID-19 crisis.
Drug policy reform advocacy consortia seek a consultant to undertake a capacity scan and review of the financial management structures of our individual member organisations.
The proposed bill, which seeks to formalise the existing market and increase investment in health and education programmes, will be voted by referendum in September 2020.
Social equity policies and co-operative forms of ownership of cannabis can alleviate inequalities created by prohibitionism, yet remain rarely explored.
