Psychoactive substances have been used for different purposes since immemorial times as an essential component of all human societies: on the search for the unknown pleasures. However, the war on drugs, proclaimed by US President Richard Nixon, in the 70s of the 20th century, as well as the pressure for other countries to participate in this war, unleashed a persecution of individual rights, giving rise to a violence that has a lot of strctural. Nevertheless, on June 26, 1987, the United Nations instituted the International Day against the Abuse and Illicit Traffic in Drugs — a date on which several governments celebrate their contribution to prohibitionism through the death penalty and terrifying campaigns. In 1993, Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations, at the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drugs, insisted and proclaimed as a goal by 2008 “a drug-free world”.

☠ ☝ 𝙐𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙧, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡, 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝. 👌

Consequently, EuroNPUD grassroots movements - Drug Users unions from all over Europe, joined the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action campaign promoted by IDPC. It is time to consider the revision of international conventions, inadequate to the reality of our existing societies. It's time to foster space to peer led movements, among people who use drugs and our allies, it's time to reclaim social justice, pleasure and the end of criminalization putting people at the center of any public policy. Therefore, we demand to be listened to and to access health, housing, full spectrum harm reduction practices, peer teams and peer led distribution of naloxone, OST to all,... We demand the right to use drugs and safer practices accessible to all. Last but not the least, this campaign also aims at bringing our own aspirations to the forefront: ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ “ᴡᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅs: ᴡᴇ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴅᴇsɪʀᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍs”. █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄

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