Alex Dunedin RJe
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Watch this short video of professionals and drug users discussing the impact of stigma and discrimination towards people who inject drugs.
Injecting drug users are vulnerable to HIV exposure. Ex-user and drug law reform campaigner, Fiona Gilbertson says more needs to be done to reform drugs policy in the UK.
Those with “lived experience” of drugs often feel cast aside by policy makers as one disastrous government response runs into another. As Scotland seeks to dig itself out of a mire that sees us tagged as the worst nation in Europe for drug deaths, new approaches are being put forward. […]
Fiona Gilbertson wrote a chapter in the book ‘The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women: Shifting the Needle’ published by Emerald Publishing Limited. The chapter is reproduced here and links are there to download the pdf
Here is the report ‘Scottish Drug Policy Reform: keeping vulnerable people safer by putting health first’ which you can download as a PDF. It was produced as a collaboration between Recovering Justice and Transform.
Episode 18 of The Simpa Life Podcast features Fiona Gilbertson. Fiona is the co-founder of Recovering Justice – Created by people in recovery from substance use who believe that the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs is inhumane, ineffective counterproductive, and costly.