Rerighting Drugs

A documentary podcast series about the relationship between drug policy and human rights

‘Rerighting Drugs’ is a new documentary podcast series from the drug policy and human rights project that explores the relationship between drug policy and human rights from the perspective of experts. 

Hosted by Kate Seear, the series examines why human rights might matter to people who use drugs, how rights might work (or not) to improve drug policy, and how questions about drug policy and human rights connect to broader issues of racial, gender and climate justice. 

The series also considers whether human rights are the best or only framework that can be mobilised to improve our approaches to drugs, and how else we can re-write and re-right the wrongs of the past and present.

‘Rerighting Drugs’ was devised, recorded and produced by Kate Seear, with funding from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship scheme. Editing, sound design and post-production was crafted by Patrick Atherton, with music courtesy of Pixabay. We are especially grateful to all of our interviewees for sharing their expertise:

• Ele Morrison, Deputy CEO of the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL); 
• Dr Danielle Russell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales;
• Dr Emily Jones, Fellow, Law School, Newcastle University, England; 
• Associate Professor Bal Sokhi-Bulley, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, the University of Sussex, England; 
• Dr Alejandra Zuluaga, Deakin University; University of New South Wales; and La Trobe University; 
• Sylvia Kay, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 
• Associate Professor Simon Flacks, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, the University of Sussex, England; 
• Professor Helen Keane, School of Sociology, Australian National University.

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