The war on drugs is a war on us: young people who use drugs and the fight for harm reduction in the Global South

• Main Authors: M-J Stowe (Author), Rita Gatonye (Author), Ishwor Maharjan (Author), Seyi Kehinde (Author), Sidarth Arya (Author), Jorge Herrera Valderrábano (Author), Angela Mcbride (Author), Florian Scheibein (Author), Emmy Kageha Igonya (Author), Danya Fast (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract In the Global South, young people who use drugs (YPWUD) are exposed to multiple interconnected social and health harms, with many low- and middle-income countries enforcing racist, prohibitionist-based drug policies that generate physical and structural violence. While harm reduction covera...