Global
Drug User Unions and Harm Reduction Organisations. Worldwide: An Evolving List
Regional
Groups and Networks:
・ European
Network of People who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD)
・ Middle
East and North Africa Network of People who Use Drugs (MENANPUD)
Country
Networks:
AFGHANISTAN:
・ Afghanistan
drug user group (ADUG), Kabul
AUSTRALIA:
・ Australian
Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) is the national peak
organisation representing the state and territory drug user
organisations and issues of national significance for people who use
or have used illicit drugs.www.aivl.org.au
CANADA:
・ L’ADDICQ
(Association pour la Défense des Droits et l’Inclusion des
personnes qui Consomment des drogues du Québec)
www.linjecteur.ca/addicq
・ Meta
Dame, an organisation of current and former methadone patients and
drug users, operating in Montreal, Quebec. www.metadame.org
・ Vancouver
Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU ) is a group of users and former
users who work to improve the lives of people who use illicit drugs
through user-based peer support and education. www.vandu.org
Peer-Run
Organizations of People Who Use Drugs
CAPUD
Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs
AAWEAR Alberta Addicts Who Advocate and Educate Responsibly
AAWEAR Alberta Addicts Who Advocate and Educate Responsibly
CROATIA:
・ UHO
Croatian Drug Users Union. Croatia’s self help drug users
organisation with a website covering a wide range of drug user
specific health, drug and harm reduction information. www.uho.hr
DENMARK:
・ Danish
Drug Users Union/BrugerForeningen. The Danish Drug Users Unions
official website, with news, reports, harm reduction, treatment
information, guest writers and bloggers, opiate museum and national
drug news.www.brugerforeningen.dk
FRANCE:
・ The
French Organisation for Drug Users /HIV /Auto-Support des Usagers de
Drogues (ASUD). ASUD (Self-Support for Drug Users) The French
organisation that works to support the reduction in risk to people
who use drugs.www.asud.org
GERMANY:
・ JES
(Junkies, ex-user People in Opiate Substitution Treatment) is the
German Network for drug users and one of the oldest drug user
networks in the world, founded 1989. www.jes-bundesverband.de
GREECE:
・ Greek
Drug & Substitute Users Union, defending the rights of people who
use drugs, to promote harm reduction policies and antiprohibition
www.okanatherapevomenoi.blogspot.gr
HUNGARY:
INDIA:
・ Humanitarian
Organization for Progress & Empowerment (HOPE) is a community
based organization of injecting drugs user in the Churachandpur,
Manipur.
・ Community
Network for Empowerment (CONE) Manipur, is a network of community
based organisations/groups of people who use drugs in Manipur
www.conemanipur.net
INDONESIA:
・ PERFORMA
– Central Java Network of People who Use Drugs
・ Persaudaraan
Korban Napza Indonesia (PKNI) is a network of drug user organizations
which was established based on the concerns of the victims of drug
policy upon stigma, violence, discrimination and violations of Human
Rights towards people who use drugs. www.pkni.org
KENYA:
・ Kenyan
Network of People who Use Drugs (KeNPUD) peer led drug user network
www.facebook.com/kenpud.kenya
LITHUANIA:
NEPAL:
・ Nepal
Harm Reduction Association (NHRA)
・ Recovering
Nepal, is a National Network of People Who Use Drugs- PWUD and Drug
Service Organizations in Nepal. www.recoveringnepal.org.np
NETHERLANDS:
NORWAY:
PAKISTAN:
・ Association
of People Living with HIV (APLHIV) Pakistan. To Ensure that PLHIVS
have equal rights and live with dignity/peace,like other members of
society. www.facebook.com/APLHIV
POLAND:
・ WYZWOLENIE:
Krakow Association of Substitution Patients (Also known as
LIBERATION) WYZWOLENIE is run by users and people on drug treatment,
who are working voluntarily to make the human rights of drug users
more visible and understandable to people who use drugs, health
professionals and government. www.wyzwolenie.weebly.com
PORTUGAL:
REPUBLIC
OF IRELAND:
・ Union
for Improved Services, Communication & Education (UISCE) drug
user organisation based in Dublin, Ireland. Their main function is to
articulate as best they can, the issues affecting people who use
drugs towards informing and changing policy and practice.
www.facebook.com/BrassMunkie
RUSSIAN
FEDERATION:
・ KOLODETZ
An advocacy organization with the main goal to defend rights of
people affected by drug epidemic and drug policy in Russia: active
and former drug users, people with HIV/AIDS, their families, and
youth in general. www.drugpolicy.ru
SWEDEN:
・ The
Swedish Drug Users Union/Svenska Brukarföreningen (SDUU) The
National Union for Swedish drug users. www.svenskabrukarforeningen.se
TANZANIA:
・ ReACT
(Real Activist Community Tanzania) new independent peer led drug user
network www.facebook.com/pages/Real-Activist-Community-Tanzania-REACT
UK:
・ The
National Users’ Network exists to advocate for the rights and
voices of people who use drugs and drugs services.
www.facebook.com/Nationalusersnetwork
・ Respect
Drug User Rights (Respect) is an organisation promoting health &
defending the human rights of people who use drugs in the UK
www.facebook.com/RespectDrugs
・ Southampton
Drug Users Organisation www.morph-uk.org
Ireland: UISCE is The Union for Improved Services, Communication and Education for people who use drugs. https://www.facebook.com/myuisce/
Ireland: UISCE is The Union for Improved Services, Communication and Education for people who use drugs. https://www.facebook.com/myuisce/
US:
・ New
England Users’ Union, Solidarity and social justice for drug users;
both current and former. www.facebook.com/NewEnglandUsersUnion
・ Oakland
Drug Users Union is an organization of current and former drug users
& allies. www.facebook.com/groups/DrugUsersUnion
・ San
Francisco Drugs Users Union . To make San Francisco a safer, happier,
and healthier place for drug users through community organizing and
direct action. www.sfdrugusersunion.com
・ Seattle
People’s Harm Reduction Alliance – a user run exchange in
Seattle. www.peoplesharmreductionalliance.org
・ Seattle
Drug Users Union VOCAL-NY builds power among people affected by
HIV/AIDS, drug use and mass incarceration to create healthy and just
communities. www.vocal-ny.org
