Members

Organisations

The Alliance
The Alliance is a user led organisation which provides advocacy, training and helpline services to those currently in drug treatment, those who have accessed drug treatment in the past and those who may access drug treatment in the future.

Beckley Foundation
The Beckley Foundation is a charitable trust set up to promote the investigation of consciousness and its modulation, and the science of drug use, from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Hamoaze House
Hamoaze House is a day service provider for the individuals and families who are affected by substance misuse. We offer evidence based approaches in supporting our Service Users, working very closely with and informed by Public Health through our local Drug and Alcohol Action Team.

HIT
HIT, formerly the Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre was established in 1985 to reduce drug-related harm and set up one of the UK's first syringe exchange schemes. The organisation has an international reputation for developing, advocating and implementing a pragmatic and effective approach to the use of drugs.

Internation Harm Reduction Association
The Internation Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) is the leading organisation in promoting evidence based harm reduction policies and practices on a global basis for all psychoactive substances (including illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol).

Kaleidoscope Project
Kaleidoscope is a church sponsored project that provides holistic support to people on the margins of society. It aims to promote social inclusion and make innovative contributions to the well being of the whole community. Respect and hospitality are the cornerstones of all the project's services.

International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is the only international network run for and by HIV positive women. ICW was founded in response to the desperate lack of support, information and services available to women living with HIV worldwide and the need for these women to have influence and input on policy development.

National User Network
As organisation run by, and for, active or ex-illicit drug users.

Parents Against Lethal Addictive Drugs (PALAD)
PALAD campaigns for an end to drug discrimination, the unequal treatment of those involved with equally harmful drugs. Drug discrimination results in the under-regulation of legal drugs and the over-regulation of illegal drugs with legal drug users denied equal protection and illegal drug users denied equal rights to informed choice.

Plymouth Public Health Development Unit
The Public Health Development Unit is part of the Primary Care Trust and is responsible for the promotion and protection of the public's health in Plymouth.

Release
In 1967 Release established the first ever national drugs help line. Maintaining its pivotal role in the drugs and legal advice field, it now operates a number of specialist services.

Scottish Drugs Forum
Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) is the national non-government drugs policy and information agency working in partnership with others to co-ordinate effective responses to drug use in Scotland.

Socialist Health Association
The Socialist Health Association exists to promote health and wellbeing, social justice, and the eradication of inequalities through the application of socialist principles to society and government.

Street Talk Substance Misuse Services
Street Talk Substance Misuse Services is a non profit voluntary organization dedicated to work mainly with groups marginalized in society, typically individuals with low economic status, sometimes homeless and or suffering from chemical dependency and substance misuse issues.

Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP)
SMMGP aims to promote the provision of effective care for drug users by developing, supporting and encouraging the role of general practitioners (GPs) and other primary care workers to work with problem drug users.

Transform
Transform exists to reduce harm and promote sustainable health and wellbeing by bringing about a just and effective system to regulate and control drugs at local, national and international levels.

UK Harm Reduction Alliance (UKHRA)
The UKHRA is a campaigning coalition of drug users, health and social care workers, criminal justice workers and educationalists that aims to put public health and human rights at the centre of drug treatment and service provision for drug users.

UK Public Health Association (UKPHA)
The UKPHA seeks to promote the development of healthy public policy at all levels of government and across all sectors. It acts as an information platform and aim to support those working in public health both professionally and in a voluntary capacity.

Individuals

	Dr Brian Iddon MP Brian Iddon is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Drugs Misuse Group and a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee.
	Dr David McCoy David McCoy is currently a specialist registrar in public health, and a member of the Health Care Evaluation Group in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

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