Support. Don’t Punish

AIVL hosted an online forum to discuss and platform some of the local and international services, systems, advocacy and policies that are working to advance the health, wellbeing and human rights of people who use drugs.

COST Livre
DATE 26 Jun 2024
TIME 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
DELIVERY On-line
SPEAKERSLeah McLeod / AIVL & INPUDJuan Fernandez Ochoa / International Drug Policy ConsortiumPaul Dessaur / Peer Based Harm Reduction WAMore
TICKETED Yes
ACCESSIBILITY Yes

Support. Don’t Punish. is a global grassroots campaign that calls for jurisdictions to implement drug policy that prioritises the health and wellbeing outcomes of people who use drugs and end cruel sanctions that target our community.

AIVL hosted an online forum to discuss and platform some of the local and international services, systems, advocacy and policies that are working to advance the health, wellbeing and human rights of people who use drugs.

Leah McLeod

AIVL & INPUD

Vice President of Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League and Communications Specialist at International Network of People who Use Drugs

Presenting on the importance of supporting not punishing people who use drugs (PWUD) and the impacts of criminalisation on PWUD.

Juan Fernandez Ochoa

International Drug Policy Consortium

Campaigns and Communications Officer

Speaking about the Support Don’t Punish Campaign, decentralised initiatives to promote an end to the war on drugs, building sustainable alternatives emphasising full-spectrum harm reduction.

Paul Dessaur

Redução de danos baseada em pares WA

CEO

Speaking on the importance of overdose response, increasing access of naloxone to police, and reflections upon whether this has shifted punitive attitude mindsets towards more supportive responses

Dr Kate Seear

Professor and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Discussing the challenges and opportunities for drug law reform in Australia.

Lachlan Akers

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa

Chair

Presenting on hauora outcomes for people who use drugs’ and striking a balance between the two extremes of prohibition and free market capitalism to achieve drug policy settings which best minimise harms associ...

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Lachlan Akers

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa

Chair

Presenting on hauora outcomes for people who use drugs’ and striking a balance between the two extremes of prohibition and free market capitalism to achieve drug policy settings which best minimise harms associated with the use of drugs.

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