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[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

The Drugs and Development Hub is moving!🏠While we say goodbye to X, our work to promote evidence-based, people-centred #drugpolicy continues.
Join the conversation on #LinkedIn → https://t.co/tChGVO2mpm
Let’s rethink drug policy together! 💬

[GPDPD @GPDPD_]

🎧 Jetzt reinhören "Crack, Fentanyl & Co–Hat die Drogenpolitik versagt?" https://t.co/j5VD7muuXQ
@SarahDavid1, Leiterin von @GPDPD_, diskutiert mit Jochen Kopelke & @HeinoStoever über DEU entwicklungsorientierte Ansätze, die nachhaltige Alternativen für Gemeinschaften schaffen.

[GPDPD @GPDPD_]

🌱 #AlternativeDevelopment is key to addressing illicit crop cultivation by transforming communities worldwide—from COL to NIG!

In 🇨🇴, AD includes ecotourism, crafts, textiles & environmental services, creating sustainable income, empowering communities & fostering peace!

[GPDPD @GPDPD_]

The UK’s first drug consumption room opens today, aiming to reduce overdoses and harm under medical supervision—a key step in #HarmReduction.

At @GPDPD_, we advocate for sustainable, health-oriented drug policies that prioritise #HumanRights & #PublicHealth. #DrugPolicy

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

Inclusive #AlternativeDevelopment starts with listening.

At #EGM2024, Dania Putri from @TNInstitute shared why diversity and community participation are essential.

[GPDPD @GPDPD_]

What makes #AlternativeDevelopment gender- and ethnicity-sensitive?
➡️ Listening to communities
➡️ Addressing rural women’s needs
➡️ Recognising indigenous land systems

At #EGM2024 Dania Putri from @TNInstitute shared why diversity and participation are essential:

[Illicit Economies & Development @IllicitEcons]

📢 Missed @JohnColl_'s panel "Harm reduction in a conflict setting: new drug trends and policy debates in the context of the war in Ukraine" at the European Harm Reduction Conference 2024, yesterday?

🎥 Watch the recording now! Click here: https://t.co/flZ1OtUCWi

#EHRC2024

[GPDPD @GPDPD_]

1/ The EGM on #AlternativeDevelopment, hosted by 🇹🇭🇵🇪🇩🇪 & @UNODC, brought together global experts to advance inclusive and sustainable approaches that improve livelihoods and align with development-oriented #drugpolicy in Bangkok, #Thailand.
Here’s what was discussed:

[Illicit Economies & Development @IllicitEcons]

Join #JIED Editor-in-Chief, @JohnColl_, at the European Harm Reduction Conference 2024 tomorrow, Dec 3, to learn about the impact of the Ukraine war on drug markets, consumption habits, and healthcare for People Who Inject Drugs.

#EHRC2024

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

🚨 We need a public health and human rights-based approach to drug policy. The International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy emphasize that all drug policies must align with human rights and freedoms, as recognized by the UN General Assembly https://t.co/B19cfbqD0b

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

🌍 World AIDS Day 2024: Putting Human Rights at the heart of the HIV Response ❤️
Ending AIDS as a public health threat is possible – if we center human rights. #WorldAIDSDay #HumanRights

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

- 292 million people use drugs annually.
- Women who inject drugs are 20% more likely than men to live with HIV but face less access to treatment services.

[Harm Reduction International @HRInews]

Three things you did not know about drug use and hepatitis.

Learn more in the hepatitis chapter in the Global State of Harm Reduction 2024 report. https://t.co/Buo5laZvOl

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

📢 📅 Join us TODAY for a crucial discussion on drugs and prisons: #Health and social responses for drugs in prisons — implications for Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe

📅 Date: Today
🕒 Time: 17.00–18.30 (CET)

🖥️ Registration ➡️ https://t.co/J6YTWi6vRB

[European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) @EUDrugsAgency]

📅 Save the date! Join our webinar: Health and social responses to drugs in prisons — implications for Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe
🗓️ When: 28 November 2024, 16:00–17:30 (Lisbon Time, WET)
👉 Find out more and register here: https://t.co/gXucRRpaqA

[UN Office on Drugs & Crime @UNODC]

☕ This coffee was almost heroin.

In the Golden Triangle—one of the world’s largest drug trafficking corridors—farmers are swapping opium poppy for coffee beans with UNODC's support.

Discover how sustainable alternatives are brewing change ⬇️

[DrugsDevHub @dev_drugs]

🌍🎥 Watch the full discussion #OC24 "Illicit Drugs and Convergent Crime in the #Amazon Basin – Sustainable Responses to Crime-led Environmental Degradation." 🌱https://t.co/3TsKNx5koi
@GPDPD_ @UNODC @IllicitEcons @GI_TOC

[OnPoint NYC @_OnPointNYC]

"True harm reduction is the epitome of meeting people where they are, without coercion or judgment," writes our Exec. Director Sam Rivera in the foreword of @HRInews's 2024 #harmreduction report. Read it here: https://t.co/UJpw3Rg0qN

[Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network @CorrelationNet]

The #EHRC2024 is almost here, and we’re excited to welcome 500 participants to Warsaw! 🎉

Some sessions will also be live-streamed thanks to @RRFdrugreporter—take a look here: https://t.co/kdHBlNaU5r

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

The latest numbers show overdose deaths on decline. Now is the time to double down on support for harm reduction & policies treating drug use as a health issue. Even w/ these declines, deaths are too high, especially in Black & Indigenous communities.

https://t.co/20q4cwjJpa

[Global Initiative @GI_TOC]

⛴️ Cocaine trafficking through #WestAfrica is on the rise, with #Brazil emerging as a key player.

Our analysis delves into the role of the PCC, the largest criminal organization in 🇧🇷 and the dynamics fueling this growth.

Now in French and Portuguese 👉https://t.co/SYl6Ntuc8g

[Patrick Shortis @Patrick_Shortis]

Yesterday @GI_TOC published a report co-written by @Narcomania and myself that examines what is going on with the Russian Darknet trade. I want to share 10 key points this report lays out that sets Russian DNMs apart from their Western counterparts 🧵: https://t.co/5zDkiyZBJA