6 October, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as we know it, forcing us to adjust to new realities under lockdown conditions that all too often left people who use drugs behind and at increased risk of harm as many of the health services we… Read More »Peers in the Pandemic: How Networks of People who Use Drugs Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)
22 October, 2015 Pусский | Español | Français | 简体中文 This Community Guide summarises the Sex Workers Who Use Drugs: Ensuring a Joint Approach briefing paper by INPUD and NSWP. The community guide highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs. It provides an overview of the… Read More »Community Guide: Sex Workers who Use Drugs
8 November, 2021 METZINERES is a peer-led organisation that organises communities of womxn who use drugs in Barcelona to provide safe environments for survivors of violence. They operate shelters to sleep in and wash clothes and safer spaces for consuming drugs, without the risk of… Read More »METZINERES: Environments of Shelter for Womxn who Use Drugs Surviving Violence (Video)
15 December, 2021 In the first of three scheduled trainings for INPUD members Grigory Svedlin, head of the nonproft “Nochlezhka”, leads an interactive workshop on fundraising through private individual donations. The discussion highlights financial planning, crowdfunding, campaigns and donation boxes as effective ways for networks… Read More »Fundraising Training: Fundraising through Private Individual Donations (Video)
18 October, 2015 Pусский | Español | Français | 简体中文 This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic… Read More »Sex Workers who Use Drugs: Ensuring a joint approach
4 November, 2020 Pусский In January of 2019, the landscape of support for many people living with or affected by HIV in Kyrgyzstan had changed radically. The middle-income country, already facing declining donor funding for the HIV response, had the services of their three community-led,… Read More »Out in the cold: Community-led services abandoned as donor funding declines in Kyrgyzstan
4 December, 2019 In recent years, services and options for people with opiate dependence have expanded to include a range of prolonged-release buprenorphine formulations. Although these new options can represent the right solution for some individuals, a significant risk of a coercive use exists, especially… Read More »Extended-Release Opioid Agonist Products: A Community Position Statement
28 September 2018 This is the first community-driven evaluation of the outcomes of Portugal’s decriminalisation of people who use drugs. Introduced in 2000, Portugal’s model of decriminalisation has been hugely influential and is frequently referred to as an example of legislative reform that has improved… Read More »Is Decriminalisation Enough? Drug User Community Voices from Portugal
11 June 2019 Chemsex is an emerging term that refers to the use of certain drugs in the context of sex. It is a term associated with a number of communities of gay and bisexual men, the clubbing and club drug scenes, and the fetish… Read More »Chemsex: A Case Study of Drug-Userphobia
2014 Globally, criminalisation of and punitive approaches to drug use continue to be implemented, in spite of there being little evidence to suggest that these policies have yielded positive results. The spread of blood-borne infections like hepatitis and HIV has been driven by the sharing… Read More »The Harms of Drug Use: Criminalisation, Misinformation, and Stigma