Listen to an abridged version of a panel discussion that took place at this the Project 6 Ideas Conference 2023, “Harm Reduction, Recovery and Human Rights”.

With 10 years of disinvestment and budgets slashed, the panel made up of harm reductionists, treatment providers and recovery advocates consider how we overcome that polarity between the two approaches, to create solidarity in adopting a human rights-led approach to alcohol and other drug treatment.  

On the panel:

Vicki Beere - Chief Exec of Project 6,

Dr David Patton - Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Derby

Sohan Sohota - Co-Founder and Managing Director of BAC-IN

Peter Krykant - Harm Reduction activist and Events, Fundraising & Campaigns Lead at Cranstoun 

Facilitated by:

April Wareham - Director ar Working With Everyone