Video 10: What you can do?

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Drugs, drug use, drug policy and health

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University of Geneva

Drugs, drug use, drug policy and health

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This MOOC is the first of its kind, since it addresses critical issues related to drugs from a multidisciplinary, health and human rights-based approach. Throughout the course you will cover a range of questions including what are drugs and why they controlled? What are the benefits and harms of taking drugs? How public health policies can address drug use? You will also learn about the intricacies of the international drug control framework and the negative consequences of widespread prohibitionist drug policies around the world. Finally, you will examine ways of furthering drug policy reform. The topics will be presented by over 40 speakers from scientific, academic and institutional backgrounds, spokespersons of civil society as well as people who use drugs presenting their views. By the end of the course you will have: - a strong understanding of the major health issues related to drug use and drug policy; - a clear vision of why drug policy is debated today; - and, if you so wish, you will be equipped to engage in the drug policy reform movement at your local or regional level.

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Module 6: The case for drug policy reform

Welcome to Module 6! Congratulations, you have made it to the last Module of the Course! This week focuses on how prohibitionist drug policies have failed and how it is time for drug policy reform. Some highlights include decriminalisation, legalisation and regulation being broken down for you, so that you really understand what the terms mean and how countries can move towards them in terms of drug policy goals. A big part of this Module also concentrates on how to get involved in the drug reform movement: you will hear from people who have intimate experience with this: from civil society actors working in the field to networks of people who use drugs; before being able to you, yourself think about how and what you could do to join the drug reform movement. By the end of this Module you will be able to: • Give examples of decriminalization and regulation of drugs and discuss outcomes; • Defend the involvement of civil society and people who use drugs in the design and evaluation of drug policies; • Reflect on and develop your potential role in the world drug debate.The final evaluation will consist of a peer – review, during which you will have the possibility to think about how what you have learnt throughout the course applies to the situation in your own country with regard to drug policy (specifically in relation to protecting human rights and promoting health); and to reflect on how people who use drugs are perceived and/or treated and consider what role you could play in this possible reform. Please don’t forget to go through the essential reading list and some of the optional additional resources available to you. We hope you have enjoyed the six Modules and look forward to receiving your peer-evaluations as well any feedback you may have. Best wishes,The Drugs, Drug Use, Drug Policy and Health team

Video 7: The role of civil society13:28

Video 8: The role of drug user groups8:42

Video 9: Would you join the drug reform movement?9:55

Video 10: What you can do?6:24

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Michel Kazatchkine
Senior Fellow
Global Health Center, Graduate Institute for International Affairs and Development, Geneva
Barbara Broers
Professor (in Addiction Medicine)
Community Health Departement, Geneva University Hospitals
Aymeric Reyre
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine, Paris 13 University
Jennifer Hasselgard-Rowe
Researcher and Lecturer
Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva

So what can you do to become part of

this important movement for drug policy reform and help to drive change?

Firstly, find out about your own government's drug policy.

What's happening in your country and

how does your government deal with this issue of drugs?

Do they punish people for using drugs?

What are the levels of your prison population in

terms of how many people are incarcerated for drug offenses?

You can also find out how people who use drugs are treated.

Should they need help with their drug use?

It's important to find out what your government is doing on these issues.

In addition, you can also find out what

your government is saying at the United Nations by looking on

CNDblog.org and seeing what positions they're taking and holding them

accountable for the things they say in an international forum like the UN.

You can also research your local actors, NGOs,

civil society organizations who might be working on

this issue or might be interested in working on this issue.

You can look at the members of the IDPC,

the International Drug Policy Consortium.

We have over 170 members in 65 countries around

the world and we all come together to advocate for a form of drug control policies.

So you may be able to engage with your local IDPC member as well.

In terms of joining the global movement,

another very concrete way to do this is to join the support "Don't Punish Campaign."

This is a global campaign that calls for

stopping the punishment and criminalization of people who use

drugs and other vulnerable people who are involved in

the illicit drug market and the scale-up of health and harm reduction services.

The campaign has been running since 2013 and the important moment in

the support "Don't Punish Campaign" is the 26th of

June every year when there is a global day of action.

The 26th of June is actually the UN day against illicit drug trafficking and drug abuse.

And on this day,

many governments have used it as a moment to reinforce harsh messages around drugs.

In fact, China has sometimes used the 26th of June as a day to execute drug traffickers.

The reason that the support "Don't Punish Campaign"

has a global day of action on that same day

is because we want to jam the message of the 26th of June.

Take it back and say "This is a day when governments need to stop and think

about what harm is being caused by current policies and what needs to change."

In the first year,

we had 41 cities join the support "Don't Punish

Campaign" in terms of doing actions as diverse as

dances and talks and street art and that culminated in 2016 when

there was about 160 cities around

the world where people took part and had the actions on that day.

So, one very concrete way for you to get involved is during

the campaign and plan action for the 26th of June and join the movement.

So a good way into campaigning around harm reduction and

drug law reform for students is to engage in organizations

like Students for Sensible Drug Policy which is

a student organization focused particularly on changing the laws around

drugs and also an organization called Youth rise which is

an organization or the people championing harm reduction.

So that can be a good way in.

Some young people choose to engage directly in the drug user movements when we have very

much welcoming of young people because for us as a drug user network,

drug user movement, we need to encourage the next generations to come through.

For example, I'm working in the UK right now with

young ketamine users in a project called Ketamine Strike From

the Horse's Mouth where we as older ketamine users share our knowledge

with younger ketamine users to help them respond to the problems that they're facing.

So I think there's ways for younger people to

get involved in drug law reform and harm reduction.

And there's also ways that we as drug users can reach out

to our young peers and engage them in our movements.

I think is such an interesting sector to work

and I sometimes pinch myself because I'm fortunate

to have a career in this work and really I think I would be doing it anyway.

When we, if you are interested at all in social justice,

I think you can't choose a more compelling area.

Drug users, I would argue

the most systematically and

institutionally stigmatized and persecuted community

in many societies.

And as a society,

we can get it right with drug users,

perhaps there's hope for humanity after all.

There's the obvious one which is the organization Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

I call them sensible students for sure because they are.

So that's an obvious avenue.

I would encourage people to look at

the input website and in particular the Vancouver Declaration.

This is explains the mission I suppose for

input and to become involved if they can.

If they are a drug user,

takeout membership application or join

the local network and become involved locally also.

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