LEAHN
Country Focal Points
LEAHN Country Focal Points (CFPs) promote harm reduction approaches and provide peer advocacy, education and support for police in over 20 countries.
Get to know your local CFP here
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LEAHN Advocacy Tools and Resources
Stay up to date with our Resources page which includes access to our e-News archive, key advocacy tools (check out the video of LEAHN Country Focal Points and the Amsterdam Declaration) and a list of high profile supporters for the LEAHN Statement of Support plus a bunch of other useful documents and links.
If you have any links, documents or information on law enforcement and harm reduction please send them to leahn@leahn.org and we will share them with our network.
News & Events
Seminar Report on Police, Human Rights, and Harm Reduction | Maputo
Introduction This report is part of the seminar on “Damage Reduction Policing, which took place on November 16, 2020 at […]» Read more
LEAP/GLEPHA Webinar: The Police Experience with Overdose Prevention Sites
To prevent overdose deaths, reduce hospitalization, and help bring more people into recovery, over 65 cities around the world have […]» Read more
The Independent | ‘Very promising’: UK’s first full heroin-prescribing scheme extended after reductions in crime and homelessness
The following information has been directly sourced from this article. The UK’s first fully-fledged scheme to provide heroin users with a safe […]» Read more
Discussion
Nigeria Police Force- Guidelines for Policing During the COVID-19 Emergency
The Nigeria Police Force have released guidelines for policing during the COVID-19 pandemic with the support of the United Nations […]» Read more
New publication of ‘Guidelines for police working with Drug Consumption Rooms’ from LEAHN Consultation, Toronto 2018
Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) are becoming increasingly popular around the world as they assist in reducing harm associated with drug […]» Read more
‘Simply locking up drug users is far too simplistic an approach’: Dundee top cop speaks out on city’s addiction issues
There must be a focus on humanising drug users in a bid to tackle the city’s addiction issues, according to […]» Read more