Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen and thank you for allowing me to address you here today. My name is Marsha and I am a recovering addict living with HIV disease. I am a 43 year old mother of four children , two of whom are still in foster care, in the State of Vermont. I […]
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Marsha Burnetts’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs
Posted by Users Voice on August 14th, 2014
Posted in Drug Policy Reform Advocacy, Harm Reduction, International 
Tags: UN Drug Policy 
2 Comments »Campaign targets Malaysia to end death penalty for drug offences
Posted by Users Voice on February 10th, 2010
From March 8th – 12th (2010) during the yearly meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, governments from all over the world will once again declare their support to the global fight against drugs, i.e. the substances that were prohibited worldwide by a UN Convention in 1961. In Malaysia, as in […]
Users' Voice in Afghanistan
Posted by Users Voice on November 19th, 2009
Users’ Voice in Afghanistan
Why we need an international network of drug user activists.
Posted by Users Voice on November 19th, 2009
We are people from around the world who use drugs. We are people who have been marginalized and discriminated against; we have been killed, harmed unnecessarily, put in jail, depicted as evil, and stereotyped as dangerous and disposable. It is now time to raise our voices as citizens, establish our rights and reclaim the right […]
Posted in Cannabis, Cocaine, Harm Reduction, Heroin, Ibogaine, International, Methadone 8 Comments »ARGENTINA: 23,000 PEOPLE SUPPORT 'DEPENALIZATION BILL'
Posted by Users Voice on July 29th, 2005
ARGENTINA: 23,000 PEOPLE SUPPORTED THE DEPENALIZATION BILL IN THE BIGEST RELATED PUBLIC ACTS IN THE COUNTRY Last Saturday approximately 8,000 were involved in the fourth edition of MMM in Rosario city with a great festival with concerts and performance organized by the Argentinean Harm Reduction Association ARDA. The Festival was on the Municipal Open Amphitheatre […]
Drug Users in Euro Parliament
Posted by Users Voice on April 29th, 2005
On 21 April 2005, ‘addicts,’ people living with AIDS, other drug users, MEPs and other European Authority diplomats met in the European Parliament to discuss the inclusion of civil society in drug policy debate and drug policy generally. Here is a short report : It was an interesting and extraordinary scene to have the dreadlocked […]
