@aivl & brilliant peers from around Australia talking about OUR research priorities. Taking back our #PUDPower! @HRV_Aust @nuaansw @ssdp_australia
Ele Morrison retweeted
Fantastic to speak with @abcmelbourne on the Conversation Hour today. A detailed discussion on the barriers to opioid dependence treatment, incl. (not limited to) stigma. Fantastic to have voices of lived experience strongly represented. @MonashAddiction abc.net.au/melbourne/program…
Ele Morrison retweeted
Reform organisations need to stop implying:
1. Drug use is a health issue
2. Addiction is the key issue
3. We should regulate to reduce the harm from drugs
They all collude with prohibitionist propaganda about 'drugs'
AIVL has an online forum this Friday 30 June for people on methadone, Suboxone, Subutex, or buprenorphine to ask questions about changes to their program. Tell your friends to come along!
AIVL Consumers Forum - All your questions about changes to opioid dependence medications answered.
When: Friday 30 June, 3pm - 5pm
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams
Register: aivl.org.au/consumers-forum-…
Ele Morrison retweeted
AIVL welcomes announcements made in #Budget2023 to remove cost barriers and bring opioid dependence treatment (ODT) medications in line with other PBS medications. 1/3
Gabby reading the Australian #HR23 Conference Declaration celebrating the contribution of people who use drugs to the WORLD!!!! And also we need loads of change. Details to come @HRV_Aust @aivl @ssdp_australia
“Colonisation is the biggest heist in history” says @PaulHuntSRights at the closing session of #HR23 1/3
“We need to refresh human rights” including widening the values to include indigenous and humans values of community, respect, and equity among many other things important to harm reduction #HR23 2/3
And respect ancestors and generations, the environment and climate. “The most effective form of harm reduction is decolonisation” @PaulHuntSRights #HR23 3/3
Many of us don’t need to recover from anything. In fact we don’t need the word recovery in drug user spaces #HR23 great presentation from @chrismrintoul
Veronica Nelson’s family want her name used so her death in Victoria’s prison will never happen again #HR23
“Stigma causally contributed to Veronica death” according to the Victorian coroner, or as @carlatreloar says, “the coroner said what we all know; stigma kills” 3/3 #HR23
Still no prison NSP even though prison the number 1 site for Hep C transmission in Aust #HR23 @CarrieFowlie
