For the 2013-2014 academic year, WWAV is thrilled to have Timothy Craft from Tulane University’s School of Social Work joining our team. As our community organizing intern, Tim will be furthering WWAV’s ongoing commitment to challenge criminalization by supporting the communities most affected in working together to realize the harm reduction and drug policy changes […]
The movement to end the War on Drugs is a movement that grows stronger every day. In preparation for the Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference here in New Orleans this week, check out highlight’s from this fall’s International Drug Policy Reform Conference held in Denver, Colorado, where more than 1,100 drug policy reformers […]
Louisiana has one of the highest per capita overdose rates in the nation, ranking 11th overall. Last year alone, 15 out of every 100,000 persons in Louisiana died due to accidental overdose. Nationally, 100 people in the United States die every day due to overdose and overdose deaths have become the number one cause of accidental […]
This has been a busy December for us at Women With a Vision as our staff and volunteers have prepared to welcome harm reductionists and drug policy reform advocates from across the South and nation. And it’s not too late for you to join us this Thursday and Friday at the Southern Harm Reduction and […]
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10,1948, and this day has since been commemorated worldwide as Human Rights Day. This past weekend WWAV staff attended the US […]