EuroNPUD runs coordinated country campaigns linked to different international days linked to harm reduction and drug policy reform. Our main campaign runs each year linked to Support Don’t Punish day on 26June.

Support. Don’t Punish is a global grassroots-centred initiative in support of harm reduction and drug policies that prioritise public health and human rights. The campaign seeks to put harm reduction on the political agenda by strengthening the mobilisation capacity of communities targeted by the “war on drugs” and their allies, opening dialogue with policy makers, and raising awareness among the media and the public.

The campaign’s yearly high point is the Global Day of Action, which takes place on, or around, 26th June (the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking). Historically, this date has been used by governments to showcase their drug control “achievements” in coercive terms. The campaign’s Global Day of Action seeks to reclaim and shift that day’s narrative. And so, every year, an increasing number of activists in dozens of cities all over the world join this unique and multifaceted show of force for reform and harm reduction.

You can read the full text of our manifest by clicking the button below

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In 2023 EuroNPUD’s campaign will focus on:

  • Designing around BREAKING THE PUNISHMENT – END CRIMINALIZATION.
  • Drug users groups can add a specific message according to the national views for advocacy–having main title SUPPORT DON’T PUNISH and then second title with special advocacy issues on their posters and forms for sharing ideas
  • The worst war we have experience, but we are still resisting
  • Support. don't punish. understand before you judge
  • Mental health issues – resignation to the paradigm of disease
  • Paraphernalia
  • Paraphernalia for stimulant use, safer supply and diverse substitution treatments

  • 1) Local Action Plans from EuroNPUD members joining this year campaign:

    Lola - drogueria - collaborate with space near Barcelona (Hospitalet) - collaborate in party

    Settings - doing harm reduction near the 26th june - bring the substances use tarot for

    Delivering safer substance use

    Zuzanna - Unie Zll - doing actions in Brno (seocnd biggest town in Czech Repblic) - work among

    Peers - happening in public space; printing banners and SDP, banners ,t-shirts, wall for photos -

    Informing general public on the campaign delivered by peers. online presence and maybe

    Doing something in Prage as well

    Dinah - Chemical Sisters + Isola d'Arran - demonstration in Park Dora (Torino) - doing campaign with chemical sisters and the users of Isola d'Arran - rop - in center, will deliver awareness material on transfeminism, chemsex, safer use - harm reduction paraphernalia, projecting Nan

    Goldin's documentary on transfeminist squat.

    Advocacy message for this year: Fight back Italian government that has push for a national day against drugs to be the 26th of June (Meloni hates drugs and harm reduction) - pushing for harm reduction together with other collectives – will keep us posted

    Malu and Magda - GAT INMOURARIA and MANAS - planning a public demonstration in Largo do Intendente on the 25th of June (Lisbon).

    GAT will have a dynamic exhibition - artistic instalation with bodies/ mannequins that will be painting, inviting some artists to guide this dynamic in public space (to create awareness on the rights of people who use drugs), gathering people who use drugs and institutions - about support don’t punish campaign.

    Magda clarifies that MANAS will have a performance called "she loved as fuck" - based on love, self-histories, storytelling in third person - creating safer environments for sharing our life stories. A conversation among users and institutions will take place during the event, bringing speakers and other materials need form Sirigaita and engaging other social movements on the fight against prohibitionist.

    Christos - PeerNPUS - support don't punish is the elections day in Greece – PeerNPUS is inviting progressive politicians/ people in power related to drug policy; inviting community from drugconsumption room in Athens and from shelters. Promoting discussion on OAT, addressing police violence, cooperating with other NGO. They will also invite researchers from Athens, director from OAT programs, shelters and DCR. The event will take place in Agora, Athens.

    Printing flyers, acquiring materials to sound, and officially launch OAT client guide translated in Greek – first time PeerNPUS goes public with governmental support included in EuroNPUD guide now translated in Greek.

    Rui Coimbra - CASO (Porto) - 3 moments in the day: moment in the interior, moment of exteriror, and an after hours (after meeting),. 1st moment: CASO will be promoting dialogue at national level, and at the same time including peers that are homeless and that are being persecuted by the police, the aim is to engage peers from that neighbourhood, they will pass the movie from INPUD/ Drugreporter about the users lens on decriminalization model. CASO will invite a person from INPUD to be present, as well. The general idea is to align international, national, regional and local levels.

    Media will be invited to be present as CASO wants this meeting to be particularly political. 2nd moment: at Fontainhas - outside - joining everyone to be printing tshirts with stencils with some sayings as the "brand" for advocacy goals of the year 3rd moment: cafe with snooker and soundsystem to promote that people themselves find the ways to articulate and evaluate the day.

    Janko – Areal - On the first day we will have a picket/gathering outside OST centre at Metelkova street. On the same day, we will visit the drop-in centre ŠENT and do a photo session and have a small picnic (coca-cola and some snacks). On the second day, we will take part in the Pride parade. Officially, our Party LEVICA (the LEFT) is one of the organizers of the Pride Parade. This year it will be 14 days of everyday events. We have a big transparent printed once in I do not know, maybe in 2018 or 2019 and I believe that we won't have problems in the numbers to hold it all the way through the parade.

    To purchase: 30 tshirts, snacks and Train tickets for members that live outside Ljubljana.

    The FSD faculty is interested to attend SDP 2023 event as we are together conducting researchabout drug prevalence this year. I am coming back from Ukraine around the weekend 18th of June, but this is just a technicality. Things are in motion. What I describe to you here will take also in The Overdose Day in August. We already printed badges and stickers- also EuroNPUD one's.

    BerLUN (Mikhail Khor) On June 26, Berlun Community will organise a street event as part of the SDP project. We plan to print T-shirts with the SDP logo. Banners will be designed. We plan to invite guests from service organisations, doctors, MPs and journalists. The community has loudspeakers and will organise speeches for the rally participants. Every year we present certificates to people who contribute to helping people who use drugs. They are social workers, doctors, activists, journalists and others.

    After the action, all participants are invited to the café, where we celebrate the birthday of our community, which coincides with the date of the SDP action.

    This year, in collaboration with EuroPUD, we will host the first meeting of the Initiative Group of Substitution Treatment Clients. Support, not punishment, is a humane way to help and encourage people to choose treatment rather than leave them to use street drugs, risking overdose, arrest etc..

    Last year, Berlun activists also worked together with partners in Eastern Europe to help refugees from Ukraine. In Ukraine there is a large number of patients on substitution treatment. It is important to get them to a doctor in time, without interrupting their treatment.

    We help them to get acquainted with the German healthcare system, accompany them and provide the assistance of an interpreter.

    A new step is the formation of an initiative group of our therapy patients.

    At the meeting we will discuss our problems, needs and ideas. There is a request to invite a social worker who specialises in substitution therapy to give a short seminar with information and to answer questions from the group. We will write banners and join the general SDP action.After the event, we hope to continue the support group's work. The plan is to organise regular meetings for patients on substitution treatment. This is an important part of the support for people who want to improve their quality of life and get new opportunities.

    Rosen - MPDP-Bulgaria / Movement for progressive drug policy

    Our idea for this year is to use the campaign to draw attention to the lack of any prevention.

    We worried about the lack of HR supplies. Since needle exchange was stopped in Bulgaria HIV rates are rising. In practice, there is no prevention of places visited by users. Also the use of methamphetamine – crystal meth, without pipes or any information of prevention regarding what can be harmful.

    Difficulty to access treatments in prisons and even outside as patients only get methadone, nothing else. Urgent need of action, leads MPDP to go to a central place, inviting health authorities for a collective action on SDP Global Action Day.

    We will organize an outdoor event for which we will rent equipment and catering. We will pay for the production of posters and their distribution as well as banners for the event. We want to order badges and t-shirts to have an authoritative appearance. We will cover the fees in the municipality to declare the event officially to the mayor of the city and to get the corresponding permission so that the participants are calm. As well as all expenses incurred by the organization.

    After listening all our ideas, Mali comments on her thoughts on designing around BREAKING THE PUNISHMENT – END CRIMINALIZATION.

Here you can see the organizations participating in this year's EuroNPUD campaign

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La Droguería – Barcelona, Catalonia

MPDP – Sofia, Bulgaria

AREAL – Ljubljana, Slovenia

PeerNUPS – Athens, Greece

BERLUN – Berlin, Germany

MANAS/ GAT - Lisboa, Portugal

Chemical Sisters / Isola D'Arran, Turin, Italy

Unie Zll, Brno, Czech Republic

Norway -FHN

ITANPUD-Italy

Caso Portugal


You can find out more about previous campaign via the links below:

SDP-2022

SDP-2021

SDP-2020

Click on campaigns marked by year

EuroNPUD has also run campaigns linked to International Overdose Awareness Day. The world’s annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. This takes place on 31 August.

LINK: https://www.euronpud.net/ioad2020

EuroNPUD’s Women’s Team also runs campaigns on 8 March for International Women’s Day and in support of Elimination of Violence Against Women who Use Drugs (EVAWUD). More information can be found under EuroNPUD’s Women’s Project. LINK : https://www.euronpud.net/women


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