Addiction

Ending Inequalities for People who Use Drugs: How the Global HIV Response can Transform Drug Policy

Video and audio recordings

This side event for the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs was originally presented on 14 March, 2022. Organised by INPUD, it was co-sponsored by Médecins du Monde, UNAIDS, UNODC HIV/AIDS Section, the Netherlands and Australia. In 2021...

HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for People Who Use Stimulant Drugs

Toolkit

Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the focus on HIV prevention, treatment and care among people who use drugs has concentrated on the needs of people who inject drugs, and mainly on those who inject opioids. However, data show that...

UNODC work relating to substance use and HIV

Website

UNODC has put together summaries of the work that they are doing relating to Drug use and HIV. Here, you can find out more about the work that UNODC has done relating to drug use and HIV prisons and HIV HIV and the sustainable development...

Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: A qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional stakeholders in Canada

Scientific article

8 October 2022

Background Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances – has...

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) Bulletin: An Update on Stimulant Use and Related Harms in Canada and the United States

Guide

1 December 2022

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba...