Making legitimacy: Drug user representation in United Nations drug policy settings

Original research
par
Madden, Annie et al

Date de publication

2021

Géographie

International

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Non

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

This paper examines ‘drug user representation’ in key UN drug policy processes over three decades.

Constatations/points à retenir

In addition to the practices of resistance being undertaken by ‘drug user representatives’, we suggest there is a need to improve how ‘drug user representation’ is being made possible and done in the sites of UN drug policy deliberation and, that these sites should be opened for questioning. This we argue will not only have a positive impact on political legitimacy for ‘drug user representation’, but on the health and human rights of people who use/have used drugs.

La conception ou méthodologie de recherche

Processes with positive evidence of ‘drug user representation’ (n = 9) were critically interrogated across three co-constitutive domains of the subjects, objects and forms of ‘drug user representation’.

Mots clés

Policy/Regulatory
Advocacy
About PWUD