A Petition by Binod Pun Gurung, Kathmandu. AIDS/Drug Policy Harm Reduction Activist Extraordinaire This Petition by our friend in Kat, was prepared for the 2024 Commission on Narcotic Drugs, but larger NGOs chose not to help bring it to the UN, March 2024. As Editor of the usersvoice.org, I was surprised and disappointed as I […]
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End 50 years of Injustice: Support Compensation for Communities Affected by War on Drugs.
Posted by Users Voice on July 4th, 2024
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Report Back from “Breaking Convention VI”
Posted by Users Voice on June 9th, 2023
Breaking Convention (BC) had its 6th Big Gathering at Exeter University in April 2023. I went along to see if there was any positive news about the healing of people in chronic pain, long term depressives, People Who Use Drugs daily (PWUDs), aka ‘addicts’ and so on. And to see old friends of course: Hattie […]
Tags: Books Launching at The London School of Health and Tropical Medicine: “Queer Footprints” by Dan Glass, and “Our Stories Told By Us” by Winnie Sseramu, Angela Namiba, Charity Nyirenda, Rebecca Mbewe and Memory Sachikonye..
Posted by Users Voice on May 26th, 2023
It was exciting and thankfully, my new friend Skye arrived bang on time. Waiting for Dan Glass’s (DG) book and watching him go through the process of writing it on Social Media gave us a “can’t wait” build up. Nice! So it was also lovely to see that he did what he is famous for […]
Right About Psychedelics, After All
Posted by Users Voice on May 21st, 2023
Ok, she was young at 12 to be experimenting with psychedelic drugs but that’s what was happening. Sure it would have been better if she had waited a further 14 years – experts in the 21st Century are saying that the adult brain isn’t fully formed til 25 – but you know it would also […]
Gary Sutton – Thank you for “never giving up on us.”
Posted by Users Voice on October 19th, 2020
Twenty four years ago, I made a new friend. Tragically, he died recently – too young. Back then, he was working at a GP Surgery on the Docklands. The Doctor there was running a private addiction clinic in the South East End of London. Gary was counselling drug users there, and doing a great job […]
Book Review: “Drugwars: inside story of Britain’s..” war on drugs users
Posted by Users Voice on October 9th, 2019
TO KNOW THE TRUE STORY BEHIND A WAR, ASK THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT IT An observation van is running surveillance on a high-level Bradford gangster. Suddenly the van is surrounded by men in balaclavas and tied shut. Out comes the can of petrol. It is set alight and the two cops inside barely escape with […]
Eulogy: For my beautiful friend,Joep Oomen,
Posted by Users Voice on November 22nd, 2018
In 1997, I came across the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies spearheaded by Joep Oomen, Antwerp. He was based in a tiny office that made me wonder how he managed to generate so much work, creating an International Coalition of https://www.encod.org/ When Joep asked me to make an address to The European […]
Response to Saviano interview
Posted by Users Voice on August 16th, 2018
Hey Andria Thanks loads for posting the Saviano interview, his book ZeroZeroZero is a brilliant description of the workings of what he calls cocaine capitalism or narco-capitalism. One of the most important achievements of the book is the demonstration that the narco-state is not something that is “over there”, “far away” but is rather everywhere […]
LEAP UK LAUNCH
Posted by Users Voice on March 16th, 2016
LEAP UK LAUNCH – When the Cops said we refuse to arrest drug users any more Under the slogan “Legalise all drugs/Ask us why” Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an organization of former & current police-officers that was founded originally in the United States in 2002, came together in Committee Room 10 […]
