A Long-Standing Dream Fulfilled: Strategy For Successful International Drug User Activist Organizing

An Opinion Piece, by Cheryl White, Toronto Drug Users Union, Canada.

Report on the 2008 INPUD Annual General Meeting and International Drug User Day (IDUD2008) Gathering, “Moving Forward II”, Copenhagen, Hosted by the Danish Drug Users’ Union – BrugerForeningen

I have spent more than 20 years as an Illicit Drug User activist (IDUA), participating in the early years of forming local, national and international networks of common cause dedicated to harm reduction and DU activism. To say these periods were characterized by extreme growing pains would be to put it lightly indeed. Because our fight has been and continues to be a fight for our very lives, feelings are often raw and our activism is driven by a high level of passion...

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