Connections for People Who Use Drugs

ONPUD or Ontario Network of People Who Use Drugs is a provincial association with a large and diverse membership of persons with lived/living experience who work on a multidisciplinary team to inform and shape drug policy through advising, consultation, activism, and membership capacity-building. We meet virtually weekly to connect with each other, hold space, create, and work on the many projects we have on the go.

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BSUN consists of substance users who are either actively using or abstaining who advocate, educate & support each other. The group is made up of active & inactive drug users and our allies coming together to fight for an end to the opioid overdose crisis.

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The Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) is the national drug user organization in Canada. Our board and staff are comprised entirely of people who use(d) drugs. One of our main purposes is to empower people who currently use drugs deemed illegal to survive and thrive, with their human rights respected and their voices heard.

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We strive to empower individuals impacted by substance use disorder by providing opportunities to integrate into the broader community through peer support initiatives and community engagement projects. We support all pathways to increased health and endeavour to collaborate with other organizations that provide services for those in need of help.

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Drug Users Advocacy League (DUAL) is an independent group of drug consumers, ex-consumer and their allies who fight for the rights of those that use drugs, and our community, in the Ottawa area.

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Based in Barrie, Ontario, the Indigenous Harm Reduction Network (IHRN) aims to provide relief and support to our drug and substance using community. We are Indigenous Harm Reduction Service Providers and community members who have over 40 years of Indigenous Harm Reduction knowledge and lived experience. We provide support that is low barrier and accepting of drug and substance use. We create safer cultural spaces for Indigenous people who use drugs and substances. We support and nurture the further development of essential cultural knowledge and health services to our community members and our loved ones, locally, provincially and nationally.

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The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) is a global peer-based organisation that seeks to promote the health and defend the rights of people who use drugs. INPUD is a movement of people who use drugs (current and former) who support the Vancouver Declaration.

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The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) is a global peer-based organisation that seeks to promote the health and defend the rights of people who use drugs. INPUD is a movement of people who use drugs (current and former) who support the Vancouver Declaration.

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Keeping Six – Hamilton Harm Reduction Action League is a community-based organization that defends the rights, dignity, and humanity of people who use drugs. It was formed in response to the ravages of the opioid crisis, and out of recognition of the need for an organized voice for people with lived and living experience of substance use at the many stakeholder tables, attempting to manage and overcome the drug epidemic in the city of Hamilton.

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A small group of health care providers and activists formed STOPS: Sudbury Temporary Overdose Prevention Society. We are a frontline, grassroots, peer-led initiative. We operate an entirely volunteer, unsanctioned but supervised consumption site. We use a harm reduction model which is low-barrier to help our fellow community members stay alive, and feel cared for.

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The Toronto Drug Users Union was formed in November 2008. We are current and former drug users living in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance (THRA) is a coalition of people who use drugs, workers, students, researchers, and allies. We are advocates working to end prohibition and save lives.

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Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction (TIHR) emerged during the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic in response to a massive shutdown of frontline services and a lack of basic needs for Indigenous houseless folks in the city of Toronto.

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The Toronto OPS supports direct actions aimed at increasing awareness about the preventable nature of overdose deaths.

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Empowering people who use substances through advocacy and education.

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Our mission is to save the lives of people who use drugs via nonjudgmental harm reduction services.

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Women who use drugs along with members of the international harm reduction community have recognized that there is a need to establish a mechanism to focus on gender responsive harm reduction services. This groundswell led to the development of the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN), formed in 2009. The goal of WHRIN is to improve the availability, quality, relevance and accessibility of health, social and legal services for women who use drugs. WHRIN is a network for women (and men) who are involved in harm reduction.

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