CAPUD Constitution

CONSTITUTION

1. To celebrate the strengths we have as people who use drugs that allows us to survive and resist the war on drugs.
2. To realize, deepen and share the love, camaraderie, and wisdom found in drug user support groups.
3. To empower people who currently use drugs deemed illegal to survive and to thrive, with their human rights respected and their voices heard.
4. To improve the quality of life for people who use illicit drugs by developing and implementing educational programs and training events that ensure learning opportunities about safer drug use and harm reduction.
5. To establish an inclusive social justice network for people who use drugs that encourages, supports and welcomes drug users from across Canada and connects them with other people who use drugs across Canada and around the world.
6. To develop networks and coalitions of informed and empowered people, both users and nonusers, which work to improve the health and social conditions of people who use illicit drugs.
7. To promote a better public understanding of the problems and dilemmas facing people who use illegal drugs and thus encourage the development of a regulated market for drugs and saner drug policies and laws at local, regional, and national levels.
8. To ensure that the voices of people who use illicit drugs are strengthened and empowered so that their concerns about social, medical and economic issues can be heard by policy makers, service providers and the public at large.

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