IDHDP also offers support to doctors in their home countries or
regions by providing a forum for doctors to seek and get help
from experienced colleagues, making available an action kit for our
members to use including an IDHDP slide presentation on the
necessity for doctors to advocate for healthy drug policies,
relevant clinical and policy resources and research to assist
them in promoting best practices, harm reduction and healthy drug
policies.
IDHDP aims to be a global network facilitating involvement of
medical doctors in drug policy reform and maximizing their impact
on the policies of national governments and international agencies
with regard to the way that people who use drugs are treated. We
believe that doctors are in a particularly strong position to
advocate for much-needed change.
If you are a doctor and agree with our aims please join IDHDP free and add the issues that
you would like to be addressed by IDHDP.
Join the voice of international doctors working for healthy drug
policies and harm reduction.
Discuss
the hot topics below on the IDHDP forums
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Buprenorphine Maintenance Therapy
Health Care Professionals: IDHDP member Sharon Stancliff
discusses the article "Buprenorphine Maintenance Therapy in
Opioid-Addicted Health Care Professionals Returning to Clinical
Practice: A Hidden Controversy" read more and discuss
here
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Commission on Narcotic Drugs
resolution on overdose: IDHDP member Sharon Stancliff
highlights a pivotal decision at the Fifty-fifth Session of the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) read and discuss
here
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Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse
With A National Online Database? IDHDP member Robert Newman
responded to an article in Forbes, read and discuss
here
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Afghanistan's toxic cocktail of
drugs, graft, mafia: Article written in Outcome Magazine,
with a response from Dr Amin from Afghanistan - read and discuss
here
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Drug policy and HIV
prevalence? Need to promote healthy drug policies to
reduce HIV rates in people who inject drugs - examples please
- read and discuss
here
- Are the dangers of
methamphetamine being overstated? Overstating the
dangers of methamphetamine may impede treatment of drug abusers,
asserts a review by Columbia University researchers - read more and
discuss
here