Course: Drug Use and Harm Reduction

Approaching the end of the first topic of Week 2, you will hear from a real-world experience, this time featuring a perspective on human rights. You will hear from Ricky …

At the beginning of this week’s topic, Naomi mentioned that women who use drugs are particularly vulnerable in terms of their health and are at a greater risk of HIV …

We have now covered a broad overview of how the principles of the human rights framework apply to harm reduction. After diving into some of the more specific human right …

The previous step introduced a range of human rights principles and made it clear that the war on drugs and repressive drug polices exacerbate social inequalities. Naomi mentioned in the …

Read this statement from UN high commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. This statement was read at the Harm Reduction conference in Porto in 2019. This powerful statement underlines that …

Welcome to the second week! The first activity of week 2 covers the topic: “The human rights dimension of drug use and harm reduction”. Judy and Ernst give you the …

We have now reached the end of Week 1. By now you should have a clearer understanding of how ‘harm reduction’ can be defined as well what it means in …

We will conclude the public health dimension topic with the real-world experiences from Louise Vincent. Louise talks about the devastating overdose crisis in the USA. She gives us insight into …

In this video we will hear from Ernst Wisse on his perspectives on how to contribute to the introduction and scaling up of harm reduction. This video brings together some …

In this video you will hear first-hand from Raheem in Afghanistan about stigma, exclusion and marginalisation of people who use drugs. Afghanistan is the primary producer of opium in the …

We heard in Step 1.16 how the World Health Organization and other international agencies recommend a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to tackling the adverse public health effects of drug use. …

Now that we better understand what harm reduction stands for, how big is the problem it is trying to tackle? In the video above, Annette Verster will talk about the …

As we have heard from Dr Magdalena Harris (Step 1.14) the health risks related to drug use are shaped by the ‘contexts’ and the ‘environments’ in which drug use happens. …

The first part of this week looked into what harm reduction is and what is stands for. Now, let’s have a deeper look at what we mean by ‘harm’. In …

Welcome to the second half of this week, covering the activity: “The public health dimension of drug use and harm reduction”. Judy and Ernst give you the outlines of how …