Presentations & Articles- International Harm Reduction Association

This section contains a selection of presentation slides, speech transcripts, magazine articles and peer-reviewed papers written by the IHRA staff.

March 2008

51st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)

Rick Lines - The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: A Violation of International Human Rights Law [PDF:253KB]

December 2007

Counting Lives 2 – Substitution Treatment; Bucharest, Romania

Rick Lines & Damon Barrett – Presentation (Harm Reduction, Substitution Treatment and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) [PDF:93KB]

October 2007

National Conference on Injecting Drug Use; Glasgow, Scotland

Jamie Bridge – Presentation (Conference Overview & Looking Ahead to Barcelona) [PDF:204KB]

September 2007

Social Inclusion and Health; Sofia, Bulgaria.

Rick Lines – Presentation (‘Harm Reduction in Prisons’) [PDF:841KB]

Jamie Bridge – Presentation (‘Alcohol Harm Reduction: What, Why and How?’) [PDF:171KB]

July 2007

Druglink Magazine (UK)

Rick Lines- Article ('The Ultimate Price') [PDF: 293KB]

June 2007

Lisbon, Portugal

Rick Lines & Damon Barrett – Presentation (‘Giving Rights “Life Blood”: Universal access to health under international human rights law’) [PDF:111KB]

May 2007

18th ICRDRH; Warsaw, Poland

Gerry Stimson – Speech (Opening Session) [PDF:36KB]

Rick Lines – Presentation (‘A most serious crime? The death penalty for drug offences as a violation of international law’) [PDF:235KB]

Damon Barrett – Poster (‘Coming of Age: Harm reduction and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’) [JPEG:263KB] or larger file [PDF:2.2MB]

Drugs and Health Alliance Launch; London, England

Gerry Stimson – Speech (‘Putting public health into the heart of British drug policy’) [PDF:19KB]

Druglink Magazine (UK)

Jamie Bridge – Article (‘Policing Harm’) [PDF:325KB]

April 2007

Drink and Drug News (UK)

Jamie Bridge – Article (‘Seeing Past the Smoke’) [PDF:115KB]

March 2007

UN Convention of Narcotic Drugs; Vienna, Austria

Gerry Stimson – Speech [PDF:24KB]

November 2006

Gerry Stimson - ICAP Review (‘Drinking in context: A collective responsibility) [PDF:100KB]

September 2006

Druglink Magazine (UK)

Jamie Bridge – Article (‘The Works Party Comedown’) [PDF:173KB]