International event focuses on evidence-based practice to reduce drugs and alcohol

Harm Reduction 2010, the International Harm Reduction Association's 21st International Conference is expected to attract some 1400 delegates from around 80 countries. The event has become the focal point for knowledge sharing, networking and promoting evidence-based best practice in the field of reducing harms from drugs and alocohol.

The delegates include front line workers, researchers, policy makers, politicians, people from international organisations, people who use drugs and people working in criminal justice. These events have helped to put harm reduction on the map and to coordinate advances, innovations, evidence and advocacy in this field for the last two decades.