Our mission

The Association for Safer Drug Policies promotes drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. The organisation is member based and works from grass roots perspective. We are now expanding our member base to become an international movement.

We believe the health and social problems related to drugs cannot be solved by scaremongering and eradication fantasies. These only lead to distrust, that increases the risks and negatively impacts on the mental health of people who use druga. We want a more comprehensive drug policy that aspires to improving the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs, and the communities they are a part of.

Our supporters are individuals who believe that current shame and penal based approach is doing more harm than good. Together we advance policies that reduce harms both go drug use and government drug control measures. We seek solution that promote safety while upholding the sovereignty of individuals over their own minds and bodies.

We produce briefing papers, disseminate key resources on drug policy, build advocacy capacity of our members and partners and offer expert advice to policy makers and officials. In doing do we work with partners in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

What we do

We work based on the five core principles of The International Drug Policy Consortium.