Jailing people who use drugs isn’t justice! Join our webinar on why criminalisation is a social justice failure. 🗓 Feb 20 | 12pm AEDT Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pk3XrBYJRvuYtLVU1c2moQ#/registration #pwud #harmreduction #humanrights #drugpolicy #prisonreform

We want to better understand how people use K, why they use K, and how using K has affected them :) We want to improve consumer health and inform ketamine harm reduction. If you are interested in finding out more, please use the link below: https://redcap.link/CompletetheAustralianKetamineSurvey

We’re proud to launch It’s Your Right 2. A national, peer-led hep C campaign reaching communities everywhere, including in custody and post-release. Testing is easy. Treatment is simple. Clearing hep C is possible. #IYR2026 #ItsYourRight2 #eliminatehepc #harmreductionworks

Today marks a day of mourning. We focus on the loss of land, culture, and devasting impacts of colonisation. Always was, Always will be, Aboriginal land. The AIVL team will be attending invasion day rallies in the areas we are based in.

To care for our young people and support their health and safety, we have to invest in harm reduction and seriously consider legalising and regulating the supplies of peptides. 💙💜

Amazing piece of work from some of our AIVL closest partners and AIVL peer leaders highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities with community-research partnerships! 💜💙

Gotta be careful when using both alcohol and MDMA.🍷💊🍸

We need tabacco harm reduction measures, what Australia is currently doing isn't working. Frankly, NZ is doing things much better on that front!

Involuntary treatment is a breach of health and human rights, and only increasing harms!

Gotta know what you gear truly is! That's why we need drug checking available nationally I'm Australia ASAP! 💜✊️

Exactly banning vapes just push the transfer of product offer to the black markets and increased danger and potential harm!

@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about cannabis! 🤩💚💛🌱

First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social monthly drug checking clinic in Hamilton! 💛💜

Very interesting! 🧡

Harm Reduction is the best! 🤩👌 Harm reduction is literally reducing harms, savings lives and improving peer and community health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social festival kit tips! 👌💛💜

Always nice to see how things work on the ground! @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social is so well organised. Imagine if we had drug checking at festivals and fixed-site across Australia! Meaning we would get so much crucial information about drugs from Aus alongside NZ to reduce harms. 👌💜🤩

Absolutely amazing piece of work from the @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social in Canada! ❤️💜

Absolutely lived-living experience and peer leadership should be at the front of policy change and law reform! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

Very good point from @chancethegardener.bsky.social. The focus should be on what the real issue is and supporting people's health and wellbeing! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

Decriminalisation is the minimum that should be implemented internationally as it supports health equity and harm reduction service access! 💜✊️

This highlights the need for well resourced peer support program and evidence-based harm reduction strategies, including recovery options when that is what people who use steroids want. 💜✊️

Rave as resistance fueling resilience of people who use drugs! 🤩💜✊️💃

Comedown 101! Self care is crucial for people who use drugs 💜💛

First @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social Drug Checking clinic! 🤩👌

Amazing work highlighting experiences of BBV & bacterial infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Qld prisons. We can't keep our heads in the sand, and denying people of proper access to peer education and harm reduction services! 💜✊️

That is to keep in mind with the current prohibition happening in Australia!

Remember to start slow and go slow! 👌💜💉💊🧡

If you missed the @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social quiz about K! 💛💜👌

@knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social Drug Checking clinic in Auckland! 💛💊💉💜

Very good point from @hrca.bsky.social that NZ might be inadvertently pushing people to alternative that have more risks with their roadside drug testing!

Hi, thanks for contacting us. AIVL is currently closed for the holiday period. We will be back online from 9:00 AM on January 5, 2025. Remember to start low and go slow over the festive season! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! 😄 #pwud #peerpower #harmreduction #happyholidays

MDMA Quiz from @knowyourstuffnz.bsky.social! 💛😀

Our hearts goes to our peers in NSW during these difficult times. 💜

PWUD Human Rights Matter! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

We need government investment in rights-based approach! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

Harm reduction is a Human Right! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

We have to ensure it is easy for smokers to access vapes as harm reduction tools! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

Australia's prohibition is falling our community health!

We need to ensure the voices of people who use nicotine are at the front of the harm reduction work to ensure health equity! 💜

This Human Rights Day, we stands with our Fiji peers and are launching the Rapid Assesment of Injecting Drug Use and HIV in Suva, Fiji, led by Kirby, FNU, AIVL, supported by the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services and funded by WHO! ❤️💉🇫🇯🩵 www.undp.org/pacific/pres...

Great to see this happening! 🤩🍄💜

We stand with our sex worker peers and also highlights that the criminalisation and execution of people who use drugs in our Asia-Pacific Region is absolutely unacceptable! 💜✊️✊🏿💚

International Human Rights Day, a reminder that people who use drugs are not legally protected against discrimination in any Australian states and any of the Pacific Islands. We need our human rights to be protected! 💜✊️✊🏿🩵

Vapes are not a gateway to smoking, they are the opposite and Australia need to follow the NZ footsteps. We are seeing a rise of vape blackmarket and of organise crime violence because that's what prohibition does!

Throwback to our amazing new peer educators of the Fiji Angel's Collective celebrating World AIDS Day 2025 by providing crucial HIV harm reduction information to their community for the event! ❤️ 🇫🇯 #PWUD #PeerEducation #HarmReduction #CommunityCare #WAD2025

Sinus and nicotine pouches are crucial harm reduction tools and should be more easily available!

Amazing two-day NSP Implementation Workshop in Suva on 24-25 Nov with a speech by the honorable Penioni Ravunawa, MP Assistant Minister for Health, and presentation by the Fiji Angels Collective! 👌💜🩵🇫🇯 #pwud #nsp #harmreduction #humanrights

Of course, and involuntary treatment will harm their children, imagine being lockaway forced to stop using against your will and you think that will help? Rather than non-jugemental support and care. You know using drugs is in the majority of case not a problem! Time for a change of approach 💜✊️✊🏿💚

Only completely voluntary recovery that supports self-determinatiin is acceptable! 💜✊️✊🏿💚