Release’s Response to Mayor of London’s Police and Crime Plan
This document was submitted to the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) in response to their January 2022 consultation on the proposed Police and Crime Plan, 2021-25.
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Response to Right to Recovery Bill Consultation
Release has partnered with Cranstoun, Transform and EuroNPUD in their response to the Scottish Conservative’s December 2021 consultation on the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill which is being proposed within the Scottish Parliament as a potential act of law. While the focus on recovery and its potential motivations are laudable, many questions remain in its zero-tolerance perspective…
Submission to ACMD call for evidence on health and social harms of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
Release provided a response to the ACMD’s call for written evidence about the health and social harms of nitrous oxide.
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Release authored a joint shadow report alongside Amnesty, IDPC, HRI and Unjust UK to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Disparities (CERD) who are reviewing the state’s racial disparity within the context of drug policy and its enforcement within England and Wales in July 2024. This report focuses on the discriminatory application of drug…
Response to the Consultation to expand access to take-home naloxone supplies
Release contributed to the Government’s consultation on expanding access to take-home naloxone. As a tried-and-tested medicine in reversing overdoses, its recognition as a pharmacy medicine (rather than a prescription-only medicine) would ensure that more people are able to access it whenever and wherever it is needed. Naloxone is needed across multiple and diverse populations: this includes…
Response to the UK government’s White Paper ‘Swift, Certain, Tough: New Consequences for Drug Possession’
In summary, Release is fundamentally opposed to the proposals contained in the White Paper. The Government is guilty of ignoring the evidence of how we can reduce the harms of drugs and the harm caused by current drug policies. Criminalisation and punishment of drug possession offences does not deter use, a point that has been…
Release and Harm Reduction International’s 2022 submission to the OHCHR
Release and Harm Reduction International’s April 2022 submission to the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) on the “Promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers through…
