This International Harm Reduction Day, we are featuring a powerful set of films made for INPUD by Drog Reporter documenting the history of the global drug user movement with a focus on the activism that delivered us harm reduction. 1/4

“Taking Back What’s Ours” documents peers that have worked tirelessly for our community over many years.

These incredible stories show ordinary people doing extraordinary things with courage, resilience, passion & intelligence. 2/4

This 1st-hand story of grass roots activism is essential viewing.

#1 spotlights The Netherlands, Belgium & France. It tributes amazing peers like former INPUD Board member Tonny Van Montfort who recently passed, leaving a powerful legacy of seminal harm reduction services. 3/4

Music Festivals:
Authorities play guessing games w the health of young people: prefer to trust a dog’s nose, test sick peeps in ICU, info releases after the event.
Peeps die.
Instead, try knowing of drugs using mass spectrometry & direct peer-to-peer conversations.
Peeps thrive.

Heard this one?….

Name a small sea animal

Shrimp Cocktail

NEW RESEARCH FROM BC: SAFER SUPPLY WORKS!

Cue up the marching band! 🎶🥁🎺🎉🎉🎉

We all care a lot about the escalating toxic drug crisis and have many ideas about what will end this public health emergency.

According to an evaluation of the Canadian Drugs and Substances

Through with what if
Just leave
Authentic
Basic
Dictate what I wanna be

Fo’ myself
Futures now
Break that back when
Now hold me here
Too critical

Break through
To the mystical
Breathe
Smile
Oxygenate the room

Be a leaf
Belief
Be a breeze
Believe
You yourself I

❤️together❤️

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Helicopter and the violin open.substack.com/pub/chuckhendy…

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Heroes!

And we're back.
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Revellers at Canberra's Spilt Milk music festival will be able to have illicit substances checked at EPIC, after Pill Testing Australia received the eleventh hour go-ahead.
Drug testing hasn't been available on-site at any Aus music festival since Canberra's Groovin the Moo

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When u feel like u don’t fit in - stay where u are open.substack.com/pub/chuckhendy…

I just wrote my first note on Substack
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So 30 yrs at $35 per week is over 54K min…..just saying #endstigma #druguserrslivesmatter #ODTPReforms Mark Butler MP Health.gov Harm Reduction Aus David Pocock

#druguserslivesmatter great to see this obviously separating and discriminatory practice put to bed

Big congrats to Jess Morales one of our 2023 recipients of the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award can’t wait to work with you and continue to build Jude’s legacy International Network of People who Use Drugs INHSU #peoplewhousedrugs

On my way to Melb to present the keynote at the #MARC2023 symposium Monash Addiction Research Centre Research Centre tomorrow. Looking forward to hearing the excellent program of speakers. Thnx to the wonderful Suzanne Nielsen PhD MPS for the invite! Harm Reduction Aus International Network of People who Use Drugs 2sqpegs

Congrats Annie Madden (PhD) AO for 30 years of tireless work, representing the collective health and voice of many people caught within a frankly discriminatory practice, culminating finally in change #druguserslivesmatter