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Author: Hannah Taylor The full article is posted on Drug Reporter, so please go read the rest of it there, with insights from SSDP Internationals Executive Director Róisín and SSDP UK leader Dasha. Part Two of the article can be found here, with further discussion from our Executive Director Ailish and prominent youth drug policy…

Youth RISE’s summary of the WHO-Civil Society Dialogue on youth participation in planning and decision making processes. On Friday 2nd October, our Executive Director Ailish Brennan attended the civil society dialogue with World Health Organization Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the theme “Promoting the health and wellbeing of young people during the COVID-19…

Update on the Small Grants projects of our International Working Group Members in Latin America (Argentina and Peru). The Youth RISE Small Grants Programme is financed by the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund (RCNF) and aims to support community organizations and initiative groups of young people affected by drug policies. These grants are offered…

Estado de situación de las Small Grants para nuestros miembros de Latinoamérica (Argentina y Perú) Argentina Carolina es la representante por Argentina de YouthRISE y actual coordinadora del área de comunicación de Latinoamérica. Ella es parte de la organización civil Intercambios en la cual se desempeña dentro del área de Intervención, más específicamente co- coordinando…

Author: Beatrix Vas, Youth RISE International Working Group Member and SSDP Global Development Intern. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is currently in the process of developing its next Strategy for 2021 and beyond – and members of Youth RISE and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)are making sure the voice of young…

Support Don’t Punish (SDP) was created in 2011, and the original idea behind it was to address the main challenges that the HIV response was facing in regard to people who use drugs (PWUD). The Support Don’t Punish project set out to tackle lack of access to health and welfare services, implement harm reduction strategies,…

For this year’s International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), we ran an online Photovoice campaign. We put out a call to our International Working Group Members (IWGs), our supporters, and partner organizations for a photo that displays the story of why this global day is important to them, along with a story to explain. We received…

Globally, young people who use drugs are dying of overdose on a regular basis, while very few efforts are being made to prevent this. The crisis of overdoses within the community of young people who use drugs is as tragic as it is avoidable. In 2005, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction…