November 2024 INPUD is seeking a committed and inspirational leader to join the London Secretariat as our next Executive Director. We are seeking a person who leads by example and is able to create and contribute to an organisational environment of openness, accountability, transparency and… Read More »Executive Director – Job Description and Person Specification
November 2024 INPUD seeks a committed team member to join the INPUD Secretariat to coordinate our work under the Global Fund Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE-SI): Long-term Capacity Strengthening of HIV Key Population Networks and Organizations (2024-2026) project. The primary objective of the project is… Read More »Global Fund Programme Manager
The undersigned are community-led organisations promoting the health and defending the rights of people who use drugs in Scotland, in Europe and at the global level. We welcome and endorse the statement developed by Scottish Drugs Forum and specialists from the drugs sector. Organisations that… Read More »Letter of endorsement from community-led organisations to welcome Scotland’s launch of a new vision for drug policy and practice.
21 June 2023 With the support from Love Alliance, INPUD is seeking to support a Gender Focal Point to increase the capacity of women who use drugs and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD). The Gender Focal Point will initiate and mobilise… Read More »INPUD is hiring Gender Focal Point for INWUD
The International Network of People who Use Drugs stand in solidarity with peer-led networks and civil society organisations today in condemning Singapore’s execution of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, another casualty of the unjust, excessive, oppressive, and ineffective war on drugs. Our opposition to the death penalty… Read More »INPUD condemns Singapore’s execution of Tangaraju.
Too often women are silenced and ignored. INWUD’s blog aims to create space for women to express themselves, to be heard and acknowledged. It is a platform to share life stories, views, experiences and to inspire each other to reclaim what is rightfully ours: our… Read More »Women talk about their use of drugs.
Hi there! My name is Marina, I am here to tell you the history of how Cannabis changed the course of my life. I grew up in a rural and remote area called Colonia Aurora, which has a very small population. We had a pharmacy… Read More »Magic green medicine
This will tell you where I was and where I am now. I started using crystal methamphetamine, also known as known “TIK,” when I was 27 years old. I had recently lost my mother, who meant the world to me and was my everything. My… Read More »My name is Natalie Jacobs, and this is my experience as a substance user.
I am sharing my story in the hopes that it can shed some light on the complicated relationship between sexual trauma and drug use, and how women who use drugs support each other in navigating this. I was in a sexually abusive relationship from the… Read More »INWUD Narcofeminist Blog Post – Anonymous
Diminished sense of self, dependency, deteriorating health, and delipidated contact with reality – the overwhelming feeling that came rushing subsequent to when I questioned my life choices. That unwinnable rationalization in my head between internalized stigma and empathy for self. In February 2020, I got… Read More »Accepting vulnerabilities – breaking free of emulated standards that demarcate us.