Dr. Miller, Raychelle Baffo, and Andy O’Hara reveal how stigma harms people who use drugs, through hostile systems, housing barriers, and criminalization. These advocates urge action: raising awareness, challenge power, and demanding dignity in health, housing, and social services.
INPUD warns that abrupt US foreign aid cuts have devastated harm reduction services, leaving people who use drugs without life-saving care, triggering service collapse, job losses, and a looming human rights crisis.
IDPC calls on governments to end drug-related human rights abuses, invest in harm reduction, and align drug policies with human rights and protect the HIV response.
Sharma and Sam-Agudu propose a framework to reassess coloniality in Global South public health, tackling harmful behaviours and systemic inequalities while developing new frameworks that elevate neglected knowledge systems.
Eschliman et al. show that stigmatising terminology in NIDA-funded grant abstracts has dropped by over half since 2013 and provide guidance for further elimination.
IDPC, HRI, and Youth RISE highlight how drug policies exacerbate poverty through exclusion from housing, social benefits, education, and employment, reinforcing stigma and discrimination.
Ahead of the UN CESCR's 77th Session, IDPC supports three bold submissions in Kenya and the UK, assessing their drug policies and human rights records, and demanding urgent reform.
WHRIN catalogues gender-responsive harm reduction services around the world, highlighting a stark disparity between need and availability driven by criminalisation and stigma.
Harm Reduction International map out availability of harm reduction services regionally and highlight key issues and populations that remain neglected, including indigenous, incarcerated and young people.
