Abstract submission for HR23 is now open.

The theme for HR23 is Strength in Solidarity, with a particular interest in how harm reduction intersects with other social justice movements.

A list of starting point ideas includes;

1. Indigenous, rural and underserved communities and harm reduction (particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ priorities for harm reduction)
2. Prisons/services/compulsory drug treatment/decarceration/abolition
3. Harm reduction and covid-19 (community-led responses, access to vaccines, enforcement & human rights violations)
4. Sex work and harm reduction
5. Racism/white supremacy/decolonising drug policy
6. Financing/funding harm reduction (sustainability and resilience in challenging environments/budget advocacy for harm reduction)
7. Death penalty for drug offences
8. Harm reduction as an ethic
9. Children, young people and adolescents
10. LGBTQI+ communities and harm reduction
11. Traditional and medicinal use of drugs
12. Current peer- and drug user-led services, programmes and organisations – advantages, challenges and history
13. Progress in harm reduction (DCRs/overdose prevention/harm reduction for stimulant users/integrated services/intersections with mental health)
14. Safer nightlife/party drug harm reduction/drug checking
15. Feminism and harm reduction
16. Harm reduction activism (successes/new strategies/social media tools)
17. Drugs and pleasure: beyond harm reduction
18. Harm reduction in crises (war/migration/humanitarian disasters/climate crisis/pandemics)
19. Civil disobedience and harm reduction (illicit provision of naloxone/unsanctioned DCRs/safe supply)
20. Tainted drug supplies/markets – their threat, and what they illustrate (E.g., fentanyl, benzo dope)

The call for abstracts will close at 23.59 BST on 30 September 2022.

More information, and how to apply here.