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The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) is an international professional association for individuals and organisations concerned with the development of drug policies to reduce the harmful consequences of drug use and current drug policies. IHRA publishes the International Journal of Drug Policy.
The North American Syringe Exchange Network, NASEN, is "dedicated to the creation, expansion and continued existence of syringe exchange programs as a proven method of stopping the transmission of blood borne pathogens, especially HIV, in the injecting drug using community." The NASEN site offers a FAQ and other resources on syringe exchange, HIV/AIDS, and safer sex.
The Canadian Harm Reduction Network exists to establish (in Canada) a network of harm reduction workers, agencies and other individuals and groups of individuals, including user-advocates; to provide a vehicle for the exchange of information and the provision of support to harm reduction agencies and workers and other interested individuals and groups, including user-advocates; to change the direction of Canada's national drug strategy to harm reduction, as opposed to continuing a heavy reliance on prohibition; to educate the public, politicians, legislators and the media about alternative approaches to drugs; to promote the development of a network of North American harm "reductionists"; and to participate in the international network of harm reduction organizations.
The Harm Reduction Project advocates for drug policy reform and works for the enhancement of services available to marginalized populations. Their mission is to reduce the harm associated with marginalized behavior.
The Project on Harm Reduction in the Health Care System investigates the prescribing and dispensing of sterile injection equipment as one strategy for reducing harm to injection drug users who cannot or will not enter drug treatment. It aims to promote effective disease prevention and care among injection drug users, their partners and their children by identifying the legal factors that influence their health. Although many of the same laws apply to needle exchange programs and other harm reduction services, our project has focused on the role of health care providers and pharmacists in reducing harm during the regular course of their professional work.
The Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN) is the first project of its kind. A global information and support network, created to link and support the courageous people and programs working in Asia to stop HIV among injecting drug users.
Chicago Recovery Alliance serves, supports and educates drug users, as well as people at-risk or living with HIV/AIDS. Their web site offers a listing of their street outreach/needle exchange locations, better vein care/safe injection tips and loads of other useful harm reduction information. A very attractive website!
Clean Needles Now (CNN) provides needle exchange and harm reduction services to drug users at sites in Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles and Pico Union. Their primary mission is to develop and incorporate practical strategies for reducing drug-related harm, with a special focus on injection drug use, HIV and hepatitis transmission, and overdose prevention.
The Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, public health and human rights.
The Alchemind Society is an international nonprofit association of people working in the public interest to protect the fundamental right to freedom of the mind. We celebrate, foster, and protect cognitive liberty: the right of each individual to think independently, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought and alternative states of consciousness.
Common Sense for Drug Policy is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating the voices of those raising questions about existing law and educating the public about alternatives to current policies. We provide advice and technical assistance to individuals and organizations working to reform current policies. We facilitate coalition-building among like-minded groups and educate the public by disseminating research, hosting public forums and informing members of the media. We fight the excesses of the drug war by providing pro bono legal assistance to those adversely affected by current drug policy.
The Drug Reform Coordination Network's is dedicated to working together and with our allies for the reform of our nation's drug laws and to bring the currently uncontrolled markets in illegal drugs within the law, a necessary step in reestablishing popular respect for our legal institutions, reversing the ongoing corruption of law enforcement and the political system, restoring liberty, privacy and due process, and securing the public health and welfare.(DRC-Net hosts a number of email lists and other on-line forms of activism.)
Efficacy is a Connecticut-based, non-profit organization advocating peaceful ways to respond to social problems. At the present time, Efficacy is concentrating efforts on drug abuse and crime prevention. We challenge the mentality of the drug war and find that present policies have been counter-effective. We promote open discussion of alternatives and public-health awareness. We are part of an emerging social movement based on common sense, harm reduction, human rights, science, compassion, and truth. Efficacy maintians a speakers bureau, serving New England.
The Australian Drug Foundation( ADF) aims to work in partnership with the community to prevent alcohol and drug problems and reduce alcohol and drug harms by providing accurate information, developing education strategies and resources and providing practical and strategic solutions in a professional manner. They have a comprehensive website. They have a number of pages devoted to injection rooms (a hot topic in Australia, as trials are starting there).
The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region. Check out their pages on the American-financed drug war in Columbia. They aslo have a summary of WOLA's Citizen's Guide to U.S. International Drug Control Policy. Coming soon, in early December 2000: a new educational guide for activists interested in reform of US drug (foreign) policy, specifically in abolishing certification.
The National Drug Strategy Network is working for effective approaches to address the world's many drug problems by sharing accurate information about drug control strategies. NDSN is made up of individuals and organizations around the world, and is supported by the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a privately funded, non-profit educational charity working on innovative solutions to problems facing the criminal justice system.
The Alliance for Reform of Drug Policy in Arkansas, Inc. is a nonprofit political action organization taking action in Arkansas on failed drug policies. ARDPArk Inc. is the sponsor of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, a citizens' initiative which ARDPArk hopes to place before the state's voters in November 2002.
Drug Strategies promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives.
Drug War Facts' mission is to offer useful facts--cited from authoritative sources--to a debate which is often characterized by myths, error and emotion. Most of their info is avaible as downloadable PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files.
Criminal Justice and Prison
The Prison Moratorium Project was formed in 1995 to educate the public about criminal justice issues and to give youth and communities a greater voice in criminal justice debates. By re-framing issues, adding new voices and employing creative educational strategies, PMP has already begun to reshape the discussion among youth, educators and some elected officials. Check out their CD (and the book), No More Prisons!
"The November Coalition is a growing body of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's present drug policy. We are drug war prisoners, their loved ones and others who believe that our present course of war in America has a price that we cannot afford to pay. Our goal is to make our voice heard, expose the folly of America's War on Drugs, and demand change. We are encouraged by the scores of Federal Judges, physicians, law enforcement officers, lawyers, mayors, governors, educators and legislators who have become outspoken critics of our country's current policy." Of special interest is The Wall, a pictorial catolog of some of the thousands of America's drug war prisoners, their newsletter, The Razorwire and their manual for defendants facing federal prosecution.
The William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice was established in William Kunstler's memory by his family and friends to help continue the fight he loved so well. The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee Bill's legacy, and helps to coordinate and implement projects and inititiatives in the interest of racial justice. For the past five years, the Fund has helped organize vigils of families affected by the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York City and throughout the state. In the last year, the Fund has begun to investigate how the 'War on Drugs' is being fought across the country, and has helped mobilize families and publicize the unduely harsh sentencing and racially biased enforcement of drug legislation throughout the United States.
The Sentencing Project is an independent source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information for the public and policy-makers.
Critical Resistance's mission is to build a national campaign to challenge the Prison Industrial Complex.
HCV Prison Project is a consortium of organizations working to provide support and education to prisoners with hepatitis C and co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C.
HCV Prison Project is a consortium of organizations working to provide support and education to prisoners with hepatitis C and co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Their goal is to bring about more awareness of the HCV epidemic in prisons and ensure that prisoners are treated fairly and humanely and are given access to prevention measures, diagnosis and treatment consistent with community standards of care.
The National Hepatitis C Prison Coalition was formed to bring together organizations and individuals interested in raising awareness and providing support to prisoners who are suffering from hepatitis and HIV/HCV coinfection. Their goal is to help educate prisoners and advocate for better testing, treatment and prevention of these diseases. Their HCV Prison Support Project has a collection of the Department of Corrections HCV Treatment Guidelines for each state. They presently have Georgia, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska and Hawaii have not yet been posted.
The World Prison Brief Online, a new website providing the latest prison statistics from around the world, is the first online resource to offer a comprehensive database of all relevant information on the prison systems of over 200 countries.
(Drug) Law Enfocrement
The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), established in 1993, is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice and a member of the Intelligence Community. NDIC has the following mission: To support national policymakers and law enforcement with strategic domestic drug intelligence. To support Intelligence Community counterdrug efforts. To produce national, regional, and state drug threat assessments. Some interesting stuff.
DEA What can we say? Know thy enemy? We won't put their mission up, cause we know what it is-no matter what they say. Occasionally there's interesting information on this site, although they hold back much more than they disclose.
The Glitzy,coordinated by Matthew Southwell, is an independent site supporting drug users activism and community based harm reduction in the UK, and internationally. They have a international list of user groups and user publications.
SAVIVE is the injecting drug users¹ community program of the AIDS Council of South Australia. It works to promote better health for people who inject drugs, their families and the broader community.
The Queensland Intravenous AIDS Association (QuIVAA) is a community based organisation which aims to reduce the harms associated with injecting drug use. They provide information, resources and appropriate services to people who inject drugs, their partners, families, friends and the broader community.
VIVAIDS is a statewide membership based organisation of drug users. Their membership is made up of current users, ex users and people whose aim is to increase information and education about illicit drug use so that people who take drugs do so with minimum harm to themselves.
Drugs and Drug Use
ShootClean.com provides harm reduction information to injection drug users. Shoot Clean .com will provide you with nonjudgmental straightforward, no bull, facts so that you can make healthier choices for yourself.
DanceSafe is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. We currently have chapters in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, and plan to incorporate at least five new chapters by the end of the Summer. Our basic activity is staffing harm reduction booths at raves, nightclubs and other dance events, where we distribute condoms, earplugs, and drug health and safety literature. Some chapters also provide on-site adulterant screening, which prevents medical emergencies by helping ecstasy users screen against DXM and other potentially dangerous adulterants on the ecstasy black maarket. Check out their Ecstasy side show and pill testing pages. You can also order Ecstasy testing kits!
The Steribox website aims to inform and reduce the risks linked to intravenous drug use. It provides information for IV drug users, health professionals, harm reduction specialists, researchers, etc.
An Addict in the Family From the preface by Robert Newman: "Addict in the Family by Dr. Andrew Byrne is a very valuable contribution -- addressing a problem that is extremely widespread, affecting huge members of people directly and indirectly, but associated with so much stigma and shame that there's an understandable reluctance to seek the facts from authoritative sources. This book provides answers to many questions, and does so in straightforward, clear and yet in no way condescending or patronizing manner. Sadly, the lack of information regarding drug use and its treatment applies to physicians and other healthcare providers almost to the same degree as to 'lay people.'"
HeroinTimes is an online magazine about heroin and addiction. They "want to be that restaurant at the end of the universe with a warm cup of coffee, a kind word and the phone number and address of a detox program in seattle or a friendly doctor in Rome."
An Addict's View is "a resource, not only for Australian opiate addicts, but anybody concerned with this problem: health professionals, policy makers, people who know an addict/have an addict in their family, people who have lost a family member/friend to addiction." The sites creator hopes "to gather a lot of information here that is useful to people with addictions and also to help non-addicts understand a little more about addicts as people."
SpeedzoneThis site contains information regarding the use of a controlled substance - methamphetamine as well as less potent members of this class of central nervous system stimulants. Its purpose is not to promote this potentially dangerous drug. Rather, it is to provide current users with information which will help them use the drug in a safer manner.
Rock Medicine is a mobile medical emergency facility. This Program is set up to treat attendees at large gatherings such as concerts, public, commercial and private events, sports events. A comprehensive assortment of supplies, medications and equipment travels with Rock Medicine wherever its sent in ''road boxes'' modeled on those the bands use to transport their equipment.
The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3), law and policy center working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties. The Center seeks to foster cognitive liberty Ð the basic human right to unrestrained independent thinking, including the right to control oneÕs own mental processes and to experience the full spectrum of possible thought. They are sponsored in part by The Alchemind Society an international nonprofit association of people united in the principle that the freedom to control one's own consciousness is the essential foundation of all other freedoms.
Crystalneon contains information for gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine. They seek to help individuals minimize the harms associated with use of methamphetamine.
Responsible Drug Use refers to the use of a drug in such a manner that it achieves the purposes for which it was taken with minimal hazard to the user or others around the user. This site examines the situational, health, and safety responsibilities involved in responsible use of recreational drugs.
The Self-Medication Hypothesis examines both the behavioral and psychoanalytic versions of the self-medication hypothesis of addiction and their implications for harm reduction and treatment. Also includes the e-journal SMH: Recent Developments on the Self-Medication Hypothesis.
The Lycaeum is a drug information archive, working to promote awareness about the effects, chemistry, and history of entheogens. They offer several free services, including an extensive database of psychoactive substances, community-based discussion forums, and internet hosting for entheogen-related groups wishing to establish a stronger online presence.
The Hive is a discussion board with several moderated forums covering the whole area of the chemistry of mind-altering compounds - substances like MDMA or ecstasy, but also mescaline, 2-CB, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, psilocin, psilocybin, LSD, or methamphetamine.
Vaults of Erowid, maintained by Erowid.org, is a" not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing reliable, balanced information about psychoactive plants and chemicals. Our online library contains more than 13,000 documents including images, experience reports, research summaries & abstracts, media articles, and information on chemistry, dosage, effects, law, health, traditional and spiritual use, and drug testing. Erowid is founded on the belief that a healthy relationship with psychoactives is one grounded in balance, where use is part of an active intellectual, physical, and spiritual life. "
Hyperreal Drug Archives was a major collection of information on recreational drugs on the Web. It is no longer being updated, but you can visit it at Vaults of Erowid (above).
The Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University is a statewide clearinghouse for prevention technical assistance and information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for the State of Indiana. It is Indiana's officially designated RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource Network) State Center. Check out their heroin chic pages.
Opioids.com: All you wanted to know about opioids, but didn't know where to look. Lots of links, although not much awareness around harm reduction.
The goal of this site, poppies.org, is to get an open discourse going about this unique plant and the many issues and controversies surrounding it.
Shroomery was created to help stop the spread of dangerous misinformation related to psychedelic mushrooms, so that people can make intelligent, informed decisions about what they put in their bodies.
Spiritplants.is a close knit community of those who dare to experience the amazing spirituality that can be drawn from nature's offerings. People from all over the world, and all walks of life come here to discuss their common interest in visionary botanicals. They have e-boards and a chat area.
The Ibogaine Dossier is an extensive library dedicated to providing information on ibogaine, an experimental antiaddictive medication sometimes used to detox from heroin and other drugs.
Our Wall is a web site dedicated to those who have died, either drirectly or from the associated harms, from heroin use. While they demonize heroin and heroin use, it's the only on-line memorial to drug (heroin) users who have passed away that I know of.
Overdose
OverdosePrevention.com is the only OD-specific site (that we know of-if you know of another please tell us) on the web. Still a work in progress, you'll find tips on how to treat an OD, as well as links to US-based agencies promoting overdose awareness and prevention.
GoingOver.org is a UK site devoted to preventing Opiate ODs. They have a movie as well as OD response information.
Fast Health is medical site that has OD treatment info. Although not a harm reduction-oriented approach, there is an OD treatment guide.
The UFO Study has an orignal approach to OD education: the Overdose Game. It's only available online, and your browser must have javascipt and cookies enabled (older browsers, like versions 1, 2 and possibly 3 of Netscape and Explorer my not work).
Path to Recovery A California State licensed and certified Alcohol & Drug Detox & Recovery Treatment Facility. "We are a client-centered recovery center, in that we recognize that there are a variety of 'paths' for each individual recovery. Some do best by pursuing the more traditional models while others wish for a more 'harm reduction' approach, and while still others want a more educational and personalized counseling approach. Path to Recovery can provide for each of these perspectives to move the client toward a more personalized and longer lasting recovery."
Moderation Mangement offers an alternative to traditional 12-steps/abstinence appraoches to drinking problems.
The Recovery Liberation Front exixts to help those who have been hurt in 12-step groups, forced into 12-step groups, or who wish to leave 12-step groups. You will find validation, information, and recreation here.
Rational Recovery (RR) was founded in 1986 in response to the lack of choice in the field of addictions. At the time, there was no choice other than the 12-step, spiritual healing program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Lack of choice in recovery styles is still a serious national problem, but RR has become well-known as a viable and widely available alternative.
McDermott's Guide to Do-It-Yourself Detox (c) Peter McDermott, 1993 (c) Lifeline Project, 1993 This guide was first published by Lifeline Project, Manchester, UK. This electronic version may be freely distributed electronically or as hard copy. However, be warned that you are missing out on Mike LinnellÍs brilliant illustrations.
The Ibogaine Dossier is an extensive library dedicated to providing information on ibogaine, an experimental antiaddictive medication sometimes used to detox from heroin and other drugs..
Changed Life Ltd is an Addiction treatment clinic located in Crystal Lake IL and online. It provides all counseling virtually and methadone and buprenorphine at its clinic in Crystal Lake.
Mark Hammer of the New York State Department of Health's AIDS Institute has compiled a thematic index of methamphetamine-related journal articles, "A Key to Methamphetamine-Related Literature." Each citation in this document is hypertext linked to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed page on which the corresponding abstract appears and from which other links are available. Users of "A Key to the Methamphetamine-Related Literature" may find the PDF bookmarks helpful for navigating through the document.
http://www.crystalneon.org/ Crystalneon contains information for gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine. They seek to help individuals minimize the harms associated with use of methamphetamine.
Methadone
Medical Assisted Treatment is a national and international organization on call 24/7, for all patients, attorneys, doctors, and advocates. The website is "Honcode approved". Information on the site is backed by references. This addiction as a disease website contains the latest drug news, a legal section for getting medication in jails, over 40 videos, methadone myths, clinic locator, doctor's letters, a blog, forums including patient's forums, grievance forms, links, research plus much more.
NAMA is dedicated to pomoting quality methadone maintenance treatment as the most effective modality for the treatment of heroin addiction. NAMA works to dispel the ignorance regarding MMT which plagues both treatment professionals and the general public, and fights discrimination perpetrated against methadone maintenance patients. It is also struggling to destigmatize the treatment which has given us back our lives."
The Virginia Alliance of Methadone Advocates is an non-profit organization comprised of methadone patients, friends and associates working cooperatively for greater public understanding and acceptance of methadone treatment.
The Methadone Information Exchange (presented by the North Carolina Affiliate of NAMA) focuses on empowering methadone patients and addicts seeking treatment. The site provides access to information on important issues, and tries to debunk the mythology that surrounds opiate addiction and its treatment. Check out their US directory of meth programs.
The Methadone in the Treatment of Narcotic Addiction is intended for the practising physician wishing to prescribe methadone in the treatment of heroin addiction. It contains the lessons learned by a general practitioner during ten years of practice in this field. Far from being the last word on treatment, it merely represents one physician's approach to a complex problem.
Florida Methadone Advocate website was created by a conglomorate of methadone advocates (and a few conserned active drug users) through out Florida and the U.S.A. Each has contributed either important parts or information to the construction of these pages. They hope to up date or add links to this site frequently once they get it going. If you would like to help e-mail them at Webmaster@FloridaMethadone.zzn.com. Your suggestions will be given serious considerations. After all, "whose treatment is it any way???".
The Southeastern CT Chapter of ARM is principally concerned with patient advocacy at the Hartford Dispensary Methadone clinics in New London, Norwich, and Willimantic, CT. and the Westerly, RI. clinic. Patients are encouraged to join ARM SE CT and ARM.
AIDS
ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. We advise and inform. We demonstrate. WE ARE NOT SILENT. (This is the NYC chapter's website.) Act-Up NY has a local cable tv show, DIVA-TV, some of whose shows are available on-line.
AIDS Clinical Care Journal Watch. JWatch regularly combs 180 medical journals for important findings that impact AIDS research and care.
Gay Men's Health Crisis, founded in 1981, is a model for AIDS care, education and advocacy worldwide. Its mission: To provide compassionate care to New Yorkers with AIDS; educate to keep people healthy; advocate for fair and effective public policies.
The Latino Commission on AIDS is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and expanding AIDS prevention, research, treatment and other services in the Latino community through organizing, education, program support and training. Using its extensive network of members, the Commission works to mobilize an effective Latino community response to the health crisis created by HIV/AIDS.
The Dogwood Center is an independent, nonprofit research organization concerned with social justice issues involving drugs and AIDS, especially injection-related HIV/AIDS. The Center is known for its Health Emergency series on the spread of AIDS in the African American and Latino communities. Click to go the the home page for Health Emergency 2001.
Housing Works is New York's largest AIDSservice organization. They work to improve the lives of tens of thousands of New Yorkers living with AIDS by providing supportive housing, health care, advocacy, job training, case mangement and HIV prevention, couseling and testing services.
New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC) Mission Statement Board of Directors NYAC Staff The New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC) is an alliance of community-based service providers and their supporters working for increased funding and fair policies for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York State.
Established in 1988, EXPONENTS/ARRIVE was one of the first initiatives in the U.S. to offer HIV education/prevention and communication skills for people with histories of substance use and incarceration. Using a peer model approach, ARRIVE improves the quality of life for people through life skills training and support services while enhancing recovery and stability through job preparation.
Project Inform is a national nonprofit, community based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic. Its mission is to provide vital information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease to HIV-infected individuals, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers...
Founded in January, 1992, the Treatment Action Group, or TAG, is the first and only AIDS organization dedicated solely to advocating for larger and more efficient research efforts, both public and private, towards finding a cure for AIDS. Check out their newsletter, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND.
Aidsinfonyc.org is a linked collection of information pages for people living with HIV and AIDS from community-based organizations in New York City.
The AIDS Treatment Data Network (The Network) is a national, not-for-profit, community-based organization. Treatment education and counseling services for men, women and children with AIDS & HIV are supported by extensive, comprehensive and up-to-date informational databases about AIDS treatments, research studies, services, & accessing care. Their nationwide toll-free number is (800) 734-7104.
The Global Campaign for Microbicides is a broad-based, international effort designed to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders and the general public for increased private and public sector investment into microbicides‹products that women and men could use vaginally or rectally to protect themselves and their partners from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
The Alliance For Microbicide Development is a consortium of representatives from 40 biopharmaceutical companies, 39 nonprofit research institutions, and representatives from 38 advocacy groups, all dedicated to the development of topical microbicides for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, importantly including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
LIFEbeat is a national non-profit HIV/AIDS resource and awareness organization dedicated to mobilizing the talent of the music industry in order to fight AIDS.
The (South African) Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. TAC campaigns against the view that AIDS is a Ôdeath sentenceÕ
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Party Smarty Marty website offers information on potential interactions between HIV meds and recreational drugs.
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation was founded in 1982 in San Francisco's Castro district as an emergency response to a quickly emerging health crisis. As the health crisis grew to epidemic proportions and spread into new populations, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation added comprehensive services for people living with HIV disease and AIDS and an aggressive public policy component to compel federal and state governments to address the growing epidemic.
UFO project, which began in September of 1997 in San Francisco, measures the seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in injection drug users under the age of thirty. UFO evaluates how risk factors and needle exchange use are associated with these infections and also examines the experience of overdose among young injection drug users.
Technical Assistance Clearinghouse website provides New York City HIV/AIDS organizations with technical assistance (TA) information and resources. The Clearinghouse also offers resources for people living with HIV/AIDS.
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), founded in 1992, is a non-profit national association of state health department HIV/AIDS program directors who have programmatic responsibility for administering HIV/AIDS health care, prevention, education, and supportive services programs funded by state and federal governments.
Red Hot Organization is the leading international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through popular culture. Over the past ten years, Red Hot has produced twelve groundbreaking albums and related television programs, incorporating the talents of leading performers, producers, directors and visual artists to raise funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.
The Body's mission is to: 1.Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians; 2.Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment; 3.Improve patients' quality of life; 4.Foster community through human connection.
Hepatitis
The HCV Global Foundation is the first and only international health organization operated by a blend of Hepatitis C patients, volunteers, and professionals which is specifcally dedicated to the elimination of Hepatitis C. They hold an annual Hepatitis C conference in the SF Bay area.
The Hepatitis Webring "is a simple, fun, yet exciting and informative way to locate information on the Web pertaining to hepatitis and to join those sites containing such information in a manner useful to those interested."
Hep-C-Alert is a South Florida-based nonprofit organization that fights to raise public awareness of the hepatitis c epidemic, ands provides support and assistance to people living with hepatitis C. They maintain a toll-free telephone hotline (in English and Spanish): 1 877 HELP 4 HEP (1-877 435 7443)
HCV Prison Project is a consortium of organizations working to provide support and education to prisoners with hepatitis C and co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Their goal is to bring about more awareness of the HCV epidemic in prisons and ensure that prisoners are treated fairly and humanely and are given access to prevention measures, diagnosis and treatment consistent with community standards of care.
The National Hepatitis C Prison Coalition was formed to bring together organizations and individuals interested in raising awareness and providing support to prisoners who are suffering from hepatitis and HIV/HCV coinfection. Their goal is to help educate prisoners and advocate for better testing, treatment and prevention of these diseases. Their HCV Prison Support Project has a collection of the Department of Corrections HCV Treatment Guidelines for each state. They presently have Georgia, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska and Hawaii have not yet been posted.
Frontline Hepatitis Awareness Projectaims to bring together Hepatitis Support groups, patients and organizations to work towards the common goal of education and support . They offer services that otherwise might not be available in each state and give referrals to those organizations and services which are now in place.
The Hepatitis Education Project is a non-profit corporation chartered in the state of Washington to provide educational materials and support groups for hepatitis patients and their families. They run the Hepatitis Resource Center, a place for patients, family members, friends, social service providers and anyone who has questions about hepatitis.
The Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors Program is a privately funded organization that believes it is vitally important for people with hepatitis C to equip themselves with all the facts and information about the illness and about the various treatment options available to them so they can take charge of their health and make informed choices.
OASIS Clinic, located in Okaland, CA, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization located in Oakland, CA. The primary mission of O.A.S.I.S. is to provide low-cost, subsidized medical care, clinical research studies, and provision of and/or access to social and vocational rehabilitation services formedically marginalized former or current drug and alcohol users. They're an especially good source of information for methadone patients with hepatitis C. New! They have a hepatitis discussion board. Go to their home page and click on the link, "discussion groups."
The Veterans' Administration (VA) established The Centers of Excellence in Hepatitis C Research and Education (COE) in 1999. Their website contains current information about hepatitis C to meet the needs of health care providers and/or patients. If you are a health care provider, check out the PROVIDER EDUCATION section. If you are a patient, there's the PATIENT EDUCATION section. A SEARCH engine is available to make finding your way around our site easier.They also have a RESOURCES section with lots of links and contacts (including phone #'s and addresses).
The CDC has a website on hepatitis that has somewhat up to date medical info.
Medscape's pages on Hepatitis C are periodically updated. They have a very traditional, conservative viewpoint, but there's plenty of information. You made need to register if you haven't done so already.( If you're registered, you'll still have to sign in, so remember your password and user ID.)
The Hepatitis C Council of NSW is an independent community-based organisation providing information, support and advocacy to people affected by hepatitis C in the state of NSW, Australia.
HepHope has been created to provide others with useful and updated information about the Hepatitis C virus, to provide a network of support for those affected.
Founded in 1967 by Dr. David E. Smith, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. They believe it should be free at the point of delivery, and it should be comprehensive, nonjudgmental, demystified, and humane. The offer a number of informative web sites, including one covering interactions between HIV meds and recreational drugs, and another on their Rock Medicine initiative (offers free health care at concerts and other big music events).
The Berkeley Free Clinic was founded in 1969 by a group of activists in response to unmet health care and other needs, in the absence of appropriate state and federal programs and services. They provide a wide variety of free services including general medical care, peer counseling, hepatitis testing and vaccination, and HIV testing. All of their services attempt to be harm reduction based and client centered (as well as a whole bunch of other cool things). All services are provided by volunteers.
Sex workers
Danzine is a collaboration of sex workers, based out of Portland, Oregon. They publish the independent publication, danzine, and run two health programs. Danzine offers support to co-workers on related issues like health care, renters rights, cleaning up our working conditions, domestic violence, drug use, fighting racism/homophobia, self defense, money mangement, switching fields in the industry, furthering our education, life after the business, and basically, empathy.
HOOK Online is in its third year as a publication that is created by, for, and about male sex workers. It is the only publication of its kind. In the country, there are (at most) ten programs even focusing attention on this population. Providing stories, tips, resources, and more, HOOK Online serves as the hub of information for the male sex worker population online.
St. James Infirmary offers free, confidential, nonjudgmental medical and social services for female, transgendered, and male sex workers. We are the first occupational safety and health clinic for sex workers anywhere run by and for sex workers!
Youth
National Network for Youth is dedicated to ensuring that young people can be safe and lead healthy and productive lives. With more than 700 direct members and 1,500 constituents involved in its regional and state networks, the National Network informs public policy, educates the public and strengthens the field of youth work. In doing so, young people are championed, especially those who because of life circumstances, disadvantage, past abuse or community prejudice have less opportunity to become contributing members of their communities.
WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. They showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media. The WireTap Web portal provides a new generation of writers, artists and activists a space to network, organize and mobilize.
Health Initiatives for Youth - Good info, good resources for sale! Think the drug war is righteous? Read about what the aftereffects (and current effects) are...
Somazone is an interactive website developed by young people for young people. Somazone provides information on health, drugs, relationships and legal issues, and features an interactive question and answer section. The website is operated by the Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) and is primarily managed by a young person.
Stay Safe is a safe sex/prevention website for youth run by the Queensland (Australia) public health authorities.
GLBT
Gay Men's Health Crisis, founded in 1981, is a model for AIDS care, education and advocacy worldwide. Its mission: To provide compassionate care to New Yorkers with AIDS; educate to keep people healthy; advocate for fair and effective public policies.
The Latino Commission on AIDS is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and expanding AIDS prevention, research, treatment and other services in the Latino community through organizing, education, program support and training. Using its extensive network of members, the Commission works to mobilize an effective Latino community response to the health crisis created by HIV/AIDS.
Crystalneon contains information for gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine. They seek to help individuals minimize the harms associated with use of methamphetamine.
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation was founded in 1982 in San Francisco's Castro district as an emergency response to a quickly emerging health crisis. As the health crisis grew to epidemic proportions and spread into new populations, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation added comprehensive services for people living with HIV disease and AIDS and an aggressive public policy component to compel federal and state governments to address the growing epidemic.
Harm Reduction Therapy Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing alternative treatment to people with drug and alcohol problems.
The treatment, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy is based on the belief that substance abuse develops in each individual from a unique interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors.
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy is a non-judgmental approach to helping substance users reduce the negative impact of drugs and alcohol in their lives. It respects that people use drugs for reasons. It addresses the complex relationship that people develop with drugs and alcohol. Drug and alcohol issues are addressed simultaneously with social and occupational concerns and psychological and emotional issues.
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates offers a "harm reduction" approach to substance abuse treatment. Research has found that it is easier for some people to begin counseling when specific goals are not required to enter treatment. In harm reduction treatment, any treatment goal is valid that helps reduce harm to an individual. Therefore, total abstinence is one goal among several alternatives. In other words, abstinence falls under the umbrella of harm reduction. This results in an approach that tailors the treatment to fit the individual, rather than trying to make the individual fit into a treatment model.
The Catch 22 Project: Throughout the world there is an increasing concern for individuals with Co-existing Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol problems. In particular, clinicians are concerned that these people are falling through the gaps between services. At times these clients find themselves in a "Catch 22" situation, where they cannot be treated adequately by Mental Health Services because they have Substance Use Disorder and cannot be serviced adequately by Alcohol & Drug Services because they have a Psychiatric Disorder.
Brian Murphy, LMSW, is a New York-based psychotherapist who has been practicing for more than ten years out of the harm reduction model. He uses simple, practical strategies to help you get bad habits under control, and he also works from the Internal Family Systems model of individual therapy. IFS is a gentle and respectful approach that sees you as a system of parts, many of whom are in conflict with one another. You get to calm down the rebellious parts of yourself that urge you to do things you will later regret. You connect with those parts that can be relentlessly critical, and make a lasting peace with them. And you will also find your hurt, frightened parts, and lift their burdens of fear. Deeply compulsive habits can only change when the pain that drives them is lifted. This therapy does that by reaching with you into your inner wisdom and innate power to heal.
Brian is available to do phone work with people who live outside of New York City.
Dance Drugs
TRIP! is a grassroots initiative comprised entirely of youth drug users involved in underground dance music scenes. These youth work to educate their peers about harm reduction; provide supplies, information and referrals to partyers; and monitor drug use trends and behaviours in their communities. TRIP has been active in the underground dance music scene since 1995, and is North America's first rave-based harm reduction project. TRIP's website hosts a wealth of user-written information on a variety of popular dance drugs, as well as the lesser-known, more exotic substances that youth are using. Take the time to check it out, read a bit about us, and get informed .
RaveSafe is part of the South African and global rave community. It is an independent, non-profit organisation run by volunteers; their objective is to inform other ravers about how to avoid unnecessary danger.
DanceSafe is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. We currently have chapters in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, and plan to incorporate at least five new chapters by the end of the Summer. Our basic activity is staffing harm reduction booths at raves, nightclubs and other dance events, where we distribute condoms, earplugs, and drug health and safety literature. Some chapters also provide on-site adulterant screening, which prevents medical emergencies by helping ecstasy users screen against DXM and other potentially dangerous adulterants on the ecstasy black maarket. Check out their Ecstasy side show and pill testing pages. You can also order Ecstasy testing kits!
ecstasy.org aims to gather and make accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about the drug ecstasy (principally MDMA). The site is non-profit making and is maintained by volunteers.
The Alchemind Society is an international nonprofit association of people working in the public interest to protect the fundamental right to freedom of the mind. We celebrate, foster, and protect cognitive liberty: the right of each individual to think independently, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought and alternative states of consciousness.
The Electric Dreams Foundation seeks to improve health and well-being within the social arenas of gay culture, and to promote an expanded sense of community. They promote health in the GLBT community, and strive to reduce both the physical and mental health risks associated with drug use, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. A focus of the Foundation is safer partying.
Edmonton RaveSafe is a non-profit organization based in Alberta, Canada that promotes Harm Reduction. Our goal is to inform ravers about the risks of taking legal and illegal drugs, should they choose to take them, and how to avoid some of the inherent dangers associated with using them. We provide health and safety information in order to help ravers make informed decisions in order to reduce these risks.
Green Party Drugs Group is a UK-based political group. Their website offers 3 main points of interest: 1) UK news about drugs and legalisation 2) Harm reduction information on ecstasy and clubbing 3) Information resources for greater drugs knowledge and harm reduction, ie. drug-related books and ecstasy testing kits.
Drug News
The Narco News Bulletin works to tell the truth. We call it as we see it. Yet we are conscious that it's our truth. The whole truth can only be constructed by the participation of the people. Thus, we strive to work together, to collaborate, with your truth and the truths of others, "to make a bigger truth."
Pain Treatment
The Springer Group's mission is to bring information about the inner workings of a medical practice. It is the creation of a community through feedback from the patients who have come to the Springer Group over the past decade as well as anyone out there with pain. It is hoped that others of similar type will develop so that we can link up around common objectives.
Non US-based Sites (These sites are also listed above under the appropriate category)
The Global Campaign for Prevention Options for Women is a broad-based, international effort designed to build support among policy makers, opinion leaders and the general public for increased private and public sector investment into microbicidesÑproducts that women and men could use vaginally or rectally to protect themselves and their partners from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
The Canadian Harm Reduction Network exists to establish (in Canada) a network of harm reduction workers, agencies and other individuals and groups of individuals, including user-advocates; to provide a vehicle for the exchange of information and the provision of support to harm reduction agencies and workers and other interested individuals and groups, including user-advocates; to change the direction of Canada's national drug strategy to harm reduction, as opposed to continuing a heavy reliance on prohibition; to educate the public, politicians, legislators and the media about alternative approaches to drugs; to promote the development of a network of North American harm "reductionists"; and to participate in the international network of harm reduction organizations.
The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) is an international professional association for individuals and organisations concerned with the development of drug policies to reduce the harmful consequences of drug use and current drug policies. IHRA publishes the International Journal of Drug Policy.
Global Voice, a project of the International Harm Reduction Network, brings together international and regional/sub-regional harm reduction networks. From their website you can gain access to the regional networks' websites.
The Centre for Harm Reduction promotes the philosophy and practice of harm reduction in Victoria and Australia, regionally and globally, through research, training, program development and advocacy. They have an online library database, but unfortunately you can only see the bibliography, and not the actual article. Still, a good starting point, especially if you're researching drug use and HIV vulnerability in South East and East Asia. They do have some of their own publications avaialble on-line.
The Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN) is the first project of its kind. A global information and support network, created to link and support the courageous people and programs working in Asia to stop HIV among injecting drug users.
The Mainline foundation is an independent non governmental organisation, which strives to improve the health and quality of life of drug users. The basis of our work is the acceptance of drug use.
The Australian Drug Foundation( ADF) aims to work in partnership with the community to prevent alcohol and drug problems and reduce alcohol and drug harms by providing accurate information, developing education strategies and resources and providing practical and strategic solutions in a professional manner. They have a comprehensive website. They have a number of pages devoted to injection rooms (a hot topic in Australia, as trials are starting there).
This site has been developed to provide the latest information arising from the NSW Drug Summit following its conclusion on May 21, 1999. The NSW Drug Summit took place between May 17 Ñ 21 at Parliament House in Sydney. It brought together drug experts, families, representatives of interest groups, community leaders and politicians to examine existing approaches to the drug problem and provide a launching pad for the way forward.
An Addict's View is "a resource, not only for Australian opiate addicts, but anybody concerned with this problem: health professionals, policy makers, people who know an addict/have an addict in their family, people who have lost a family member/friend to addiction." The sites creator hopes "to gather a lot of information here that is useful to people with addictions and also to help non-addicts understand a little more about addicts as people."
McDermott's Guide to Do-It-Yourself Detox (c) Peter McDermott, 1993 (c) Lifeline Project, 1993 This guide was first published by Lifeline Project, Manchester, UK. This electronic version may be freely distributed electronically or as hard copy. However, be warned that you are missing out on Mike LinnellÍs brilliant illustrations.
The (South African) Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. TAC campaigns against the view that AIDS is a Ôdeath sentenceÕ
RaveSafe is part of the South African and global rave community. It is an independent, non-profit organisation run by volunteers; their objective is to inform other ravers about how to avoid unnecessary danger.
Friends and Supporters of Harm reduction and Drug Policy Reform
Ariana Huffington has been a voal critic of current drug policy. She writes columns that are syndicated in a number of US newspapers. You can see these at her website, Ariana online.
Bill Maher needs some re-education when it comes to his attitude towards actual drug users, but his upfront opposition to the madness of America's drug war is a welcome change from the stuff you usually see on TV. His Politically Incorrect website has the schedule of upcoming shows. You can write to Incorrect, Inc., 7800 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 to lobby for your favorite harm reductoionist's appearance on his show.
Other Sites
Mind Space is a collaborative collective of eclectic minds all over the planet. One of the first virtual communities formed on the Internet to discuss a sustainable future, reality selection, surrounding philosophies, cyber culture, literature, alternative lifestyles and viewpoints, freedom of information, music, psychedelics, and more. Welcome to our community.
Family Drug Support was created to assist families throughout Australia to deal with drug issues in a way that strengthens relationships and achieves positive outcomes.
http://www.bluelight.nu Full of kids - and allied with Eztest…but lot's of info on the rave scene
http://www.shroomery.org -Tap into the collective intelligence of thousands of shroomers worldwide. There is no better place to find answers to a question you have, share information, or just get to know some fellow psychonauts.
Hotties of Harm Reduction This calendar represents the unique efforts of some of us working to reduce the harms associated with risky behaviors including drug use and sex.
