26/06/2025
📅 Today is the Global Day of Action for Support Don’t Punish —
A worldwide campaign calling for drug policies rooted in health, human rights and dignity.
⚠️In Ireland, thousands of people continue to be criminalised simply for using drugs.
⚠️This approach doesn’t reduce harm — it increases it.
⚠️Criminalisation fuels stigma, fractures families, pushes people away from help, and creates lifelong barriers to housing, work and recovery.
📽️This video is a snapshot of people who use drugs, family members, community workers and legislators about the impact of criminalisation and why there is a more effective way to support people who use drugs, families and our communities.
✅Please follow UISCE social media channels for full interviews coming over the next few weeks.
Every year, thousands of people in Ireland are criminalised simply for using drugs. But punishment doesn’t solve the problem — it deepens it.Criminalisation ...
