Regulations of the Association “Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs”

Association «Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs» ENPUD

Adopted by the ENPUD General Meeting dated 15th of October 2024.
Since the adoption of the ENPUD/ENPUD Community Regulations by the General Meeting, as confirmed by the minutes of the ENPUD Management Board.

This ENPUD Regulation replaces the ENPUD Membership Regulation adopted by the ENPUD Coordination Council in 2019 and is the basis for the formation of the Statutes and regulatory documents for the registration of the ENPUD/ENPUD Community in the Republic of Lithuania.

ENPUD Motivation
- restore the rights and freedoms of ourselves and people who use psychoactive substances.

ENPUD Mission
We create conditions to prevent more people from becoming addicted, and to preserve life, freedom, health, mental and social well-being of those who are ill.

 Approach: Nothing for us without us- the practice of personal meaningful participation in the adoption and implementation of humane drug policies in our countries is reinforced by the practice of skills for meaningful participation in the development of the ENPUD Community.

We - Collectively develop the regulations necessary for the work and vote by the General Meeting of the ENPUD Community; commit to participate in the development, voting and execution of the ENPUD Charter, the decisions of the General Meeting of the Community, and to follow the Regulations, Policies and other governing documents of the ENPUD Community.
We recognize a personal responsibility to enhance competencies in the practice of democracy, transparency and accountability in the Community.

Context:
In 2010, during a regional meeting, activists from people who use psychoactive substances began to unite into a Community to influence decision-making; implementation and monitoring of programs to reduce the risks and increase the benefits of substance use.
ENPUD COVID19 Open Letter

In 2020, we registered as a non-governmental organization of People Who Use Drugs, which aimed to respond to the effects of repressive drug policies by saving people from HIV, hepatitis, prison and overdose deaths.

Having analyzed 14 years of performance results we realized that:
- repression by states against us has persisted and/or intensified;
- stigma and discrimination against us take legal forms in the form of regulations;
- programs to reduce the possible risks and increase the benefits of substance use have been reduced to HIV prevention;
- life-saving drugs - methadone, buprenorphine - are continued to be used as a punishment for reporting problems in drug treatment services in the process of monitoring the availability and quality of services by the Community;
- we record the insufficient level of transparency and accountability of specialized NGOs to the Communities, for the protection of whose rights they work.

Long years of dealing with the effects of the stigma of criminalization of repressive drug policies has allowed us to survive.

Time to influence and eradicate the causes of problems.
 Removing the legal stigma from regulations that ensure unconditional access to life-saving medicines will allow us to increase monitoring by the Community because people will no longer be afraid to speak up.              
 Decriminalization and community-run social clubs for substance abusers will enable us to achieve our mission: there will be fewer addicts; those who are ill will be able to maintain their freedom, life, health, social and material well-being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014-202... wars of rf against Ukraine; totalitarian terrorist regimes against democracy, human rights and freedoms are supported by super profits from illegal trafficking of psychoactive substances.

ENPUD logo from 2010 to March 2022

 

Updated ENPUD logo since March 2022

We - as a Community and personally each help the victory of Ukraine, people's rights and freedoms!

The Power of Community of the Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs

Institutional memory                                       

How we survived in 2022

 

Position of the ENPUD General Assembly in connection with the large-scale attack of rf in Ukraine:

Decision of the General Assembly of the Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs ENPUD (16 September - 6 October 2023)
➢rf is removed from the ENPUD list of countries as a terrorist country.
➢people on the territory of rf, as a terrorist country, do NOT have the opportunity to become valid or supporting members of ENPUD.
➢exclude the possibility of transferring ENPUD resources in the form of grants or humanitarian aid to the territory of rf as a terrorist country.
We realize that money from the illegal trafficking of psychoactive substances becomes the missiles and bombs operated by totalitarian terrorist regimes.

By redirecting resources from the sale of psychoactive substances to creation, we help Ukraine and all countries that have to defend themselves against terrorists.

We understand that one opportunity to mitigate the flow of monetary support for terrorist crimes is to decriminalize the use of substances, with investments in the realization of rights and the economies of our countries.

We have made a conscious decision to speak publicly about the goals and actions of the ENPUD Community, our own experiences with substance use, and our own experiences with medical professionals, police, and other government and community representatives regarding substance use.

Restoration of rights means:
✓the right to responsible use, possession, cultivation/synthesis. We are in favor of Social Clubs by type of substance appreciators. Access from the age of 21. Expert counseling prior to psychoactive substance use. No victims, no police attention.
✓To fulfill the objective: cheaper and higher quality substances, we need to bring back the conditions when we ourselves were responsible for the complete process from manufacture to safe use of psychoactive substances.
✓Informing, Monitoring the Quality of Substances and Community Managed Services.
✓Taxes from the legal sale of psychoactive substances develop the economy, particularly in quality control, compliance programs, and reducing the risks of addiction.

Decriminalization is a practice of professional governments that helps keep People alive and healthy; the practice is documented by the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

 

The ENPUD Community brings together People who:
✓have personal experience of surviving repressive drug policies related to the use of psychoactive substances;
✓have knowledge and experience in advocating for their rights and developing harm reduction programs in their cities;
✓have knowledge and experience of effective advocacy at the national level;
✓personal position, values and principles coincide with the ENPUD Community, spelled out in this document ENPUD Community Regulations.
✓are motivated to invest maximally and effectively in the processes of restoring the rights of people who use psychoactive substances - to achieve the strategic goals and tactical outcomes of the ENPUD Community.
✓are ready to improve their competencies in managing resources and influencing decision-making          
both in the ENPUD Community and in their country and region in
terms of implementing humane drug policies.
✓Values, not short-term profit/benefit. The ENPUD Community is formed by people with strong values, which we are able to talk about and put into practice.
✓ENPUD Community members trust each other completely. We are close people to each other. This shapes the way we live our lives.

 

Principles of risk mitigation in the practice of Institutional Development at ENPUD.
The Base:
The principle of harm reduction states that the actions of individuals should be restricted only to prevent harm to others.

Principle 1: We acknowledge that psychoactive substance use is part of our world and we choose to work to increase the benefits and minimize the possible negative consequences, rather than simply ignore or condemn.

Practicing Principle 1 in the ENPUD Community:

We accept ourselves and our way of life.
We always present ourselves as People Who Use Psychoactive Substances.
Our publicity is aimed at dispelling stigma and stereotypes about people who use psychoactive substances.
We do not confuse care with treatment. Care is to timely inform and help with what is needed at the  time of the request. 

           

We have a safe place to voice your disagreement. It is safe and environmentally friendly to express an opinion that is different from the majority opinion. We discuss, not judge.
We are able to do our work in the process of psychoactive substance use in a quality and timely manner. Here are people with experience of responsible substance use.
In the ENPUD Community, when organizing events, it is mandatory to ensure safety, access to the medicine and risk reduction conditions for participants and attendees.

 

 

Principle 2: We understand psychoactive substance use as a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, embracing a continuum of behaviors ranging from heavy use to abstinence, and recognize that some psychoactive substances are clearly safer than others.

Practicing Principle 2 in the ENPUD Community:

We practice harm reduction ourselves and promote as a culture of use among people who use psychoactive substances.
We are honest with each other and when we see manifestations of incipient negative consequences of psychoactive substance use (physical or mental), we try to give timely peer-to-peer feedback; define a plan of action to bring balance back into life; support morally, professionally, with contacts and opportunities.

We invest resources in health insurance coverage for the health and life of ENPUD members.
We stay connected and ensure that we can return to active duty.

Principle 3: A key indicator of successful harm reduction interventions and policies is an improvement in the quality of personal life and social well-being, without necessarily stopping psychoactive substance use.

Practicing Principle 3 in the ENPUD Community:

Our lives and freedom depend on the available and timely life-saving medication that an opioid substitution treatment program provides.

 

 

 

In order to increase public well-being, the burden of finding money to buy psychoactive substances on a daily basis must be relieved. Doctor's counseling and medications for substitution maintenance therapy should be paid for from the resources of the public budget; which we also refill with taxes.
The quality of our lives depends on safe access to quality, clean psychoactive substances; services that need to be implemented under Community-led management.
Community support, participation in international conferences, and internships help people experience life without stigma and criminalization. The seeds of freedom fall into the fertile soil of support in the Community, so that the impressions of humane drug policies are transformed into changes by the Community's forces in our countries.
We find opportunities and resources to enhance competencies and skills; transfer knowledge and experience to each other to optimize the path to results.
We provide participation in decision-making processes in the ENPUD Community: systemic opportunities to increase our knowledge and access to resources.
Resources in the ENPUD Community are invested in enhancing skills, competencies, mobilization and impactful advocacy by participants of the General Assembly.
ENPUD Community invests resources to set up shelters, purchase equipment for social enterprises so that Community-run organizations have opportunities to earn money for basic needs.

Principle 4: We call for non-judgmental and voluntary services for people who use psychoactive substances and for the Communities in which we live.

Practicing Principle 4 in the ENPUD Community:

Participation in the ENPUD Community is voluntary.
We support the diversity of national languages and customs, and provide opportunities to speak in one's native language in preparation for the meeting.

 

We support the development of services for types and modes of psychoactive substance use, based  on peer experience and knowledge.

 

 

We support the implementation and development of evidence-based programs that are proven to be effective and safe in scientific and legal settings; including the experiences of ENPUD Community members.
In the ENPUD Community, we have shared decision making, and we have the ability and willingness to accept continuous feedback.

Principle 5:
We guarantee that people who use drugs and those with a history of regular drug use have a real voice that influences the creation of programs and policies designed to improve the quality of life and restore the rights of people who use psychoactive substances.

Practicing Principle 5 in the ENPUD Community:

The ENPUD Community is a platform to manifest and develop own voice. We are a platform for practicing meaningful participation and influencing policies and practices, not a “closed club”. A platform that the ENPUD Community moderates becomes a meeting place for different groups. A place where representatives of other Communities, allies and partners meet.
We practice the IDUIT guidelines of the International Network of People who Use Drugs INPUD:

Empowering the Community to Realize Rights and Empowerment.
The ENPUD Community implements a competent democracy approach: The obligation to participate in the development of normative documents, regulations, policies and procedures. Opportunities to make suggestions, to defend own points of view and experience by participating in discussions and debates; experience that helps in advocacy with public services.
The valuable skills of each and every one become the possession of many.
Interchangeability in a cause is a desirable outcome, not a threat to one's usefulness.
We realize the approach of developing thematic Expert Councils; composition: ENPUD Community members take the initiative and take responsibility to achieve results that
will return our lives to a legal fair ground.
Support of rotation and development of competencies of everyone.
Opportunity to develop, make efforts in achieving results; suggesting ideas, trying oneself in different directions. Situational leadership. Whose case - he/she/they are the leaders. Everyone knows the limits of competence: his/her own and others', and takes it into account.
Equality, not seniority/professionality. Any of the Community members can hold positions with different levels of capacity and responsibility under the conditions adopted by the ENPUD General Assembly.
The influence of voice in the ENPUD Community is enforced by a rule - if one of us reasonably says “No”, the document, strategy, action plan, Position, etc. is returned for revision.
We understand the difference between meaningfully participating or getting a nod for personal gain. Meaningful participation is an outcome for the benefit of the Community and accountability for actions on behalf of the Community. Nodding for personal gain is promoting corrupt interests under the guise of “good” for the Community.
We understand the difference between delegation and usurpation of power. Delegation is to create conditions for effective direct participation of the Community with decision makers. Usurpation of power is to use delegation to advance one's name and career, to form personal contacts, limiting the Community's ability to participate in negotiations and access to resources.
We understand the difference between transparency and security. Transparency is the ability to influence the processes of implementation of decisions made by the Board or the General Assembly of ENPUD. Safety - when telling stories, I have the right to talk only about the fact of personal use and never name the people who were around.
We understand the difference between being a Community Representative and belonging to people who use psychoactive substances.
A spokesperson is when I am part of a team, assigned a task and working towards a result that will improve the quality of my life and the lives of hundreds/thousands of people who use psychoactive substances. Belonging is when there is an experience that allows you to understand what is being talked about.
We understand the difference between Monitoring by Community and Monitoring with the use of Community. Monitoring by Community means that we decide what to monitor, when to monitor, why to monitor, and how to use the results; the resources are also in our control. Monitoring using people who use psychoactive substances is when others decide what to do and how to do it; they do not want to be responsible for the results and impact.

 

Principle 6:
We affirm that people who use psychoactive substances are themselves key agents of influence in the development of harm reduction programs for psychoactive substance use. We aim to enable people who use psychoactive substances to share information and support each other in strategies that are appropriate to the actual conditions of psychoactive substance use.

Practicing Principle 6 in the ENPUD Community:

You see the negative consequences; We know and address the causes.
We don't recommend, We act.
We create conditions for the diversity of the Community's activities: some of us are great at creating shelters, some of us fight in court. Some of us with a video camera for rights and freedoms in the Way; some of us at the computer holding the virtual chaos of the online Community, raising resources to achieve the impossible but necessary.
We who survive repressive drug policies have the skills and abilities to achieve the impossible.
Our case is our leadership.
In partnership, we are honest, responsible, transparent and accountable.
We're uncompromising in our values. We will not be satisfied with the giveaway of “change the amount for half a gram more", for which they will start systematically destroying lives. We're going all the way to giving us back the right to use psychoactive substances responsibly. No victim, no crime. We take independent, organized adults off the illegal market. Freeing up police time to arrest those who sell poison under the guise of psychoactive substances.

Principle 7:
We acknowledge that the realities of poverty, class, racism, social exclusion, past trauma, gender discrimination, and other forms of social inequality affect both people's vulnerability and our ability to effectively manage psychoactive substance-related harm.

Practicing Principle 7 in the ENPUD Community:

In the ENPUD Community/ ENPUD welcomes and supports the work of all Communities vulnerable to rights violations: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender and non-binary people. All sexual and gender identities are valued as expressions of the individuality of each, each and every one.
NarcoFeminism is the basis for creating comfortable and safe relationships in the Community of men and women; different genders. We believe that dividing us by sex, gender can weaken the advocacy capacity of the Community. Therefore, we have developed and are implementing systematic gender monitoring to preserve and strengthen equality in access to effective use of information, resources, opportunities and perspectives for all in the Community, in the civil society of our countries.
We in the Community have unified criteria for decent pay for any position - equal conditions for all; this allows us to strengthen the material well-being of ENPUD Community participants.
If one of the ENPUD participants / ENPUD Community who have taken up a task does not contact us for two weeks and does not fulfill his/her obligations; our task is to support the person to come back and continue working.
We try to strengthen social support for each other with labor contracts with paid vacation. Then we have the opportunity to provide paid vacation for recovery. If a person is on a counseling contract, we discuss the number of tasks that he/she has the strength and ability to perform.
People within, who act against the majority view, can be a source of positive change because they are the first ones to see a problem and point it out. They are the key to the development of the Community.
People who have lost the meaning and values of participation and People who have joined the Community team and are diluting values need our attention: we invest time in explaining the need for results; the meaning of ENPUD/ENPUD Community rules and procedures; try to hear and see us through their eyes. If in the end it turns out that we do not agree on values, we simply part ways.
New participants are a source of valuable change, developing the ENPUD Community.
People who are outside the community and get in the way. On the one hand, maybe we are influencing something of value to others. We need to show the benefits of drug policy reform and the democratic processes we are striving for.
People outside the ENPUD Community who interfere with us out of their own free will. It is important to explain that we can see the motivation and cause and effect of their opposition to the Community's actions.
ENPUD community - we feel grateful for each other's contributions and meaningful participation.

Principle 8:
We are not attempting to minimize or ignore the real and tragic harms and dangers that can be associated with psychoactive substance use in a repressive drug policy environment.

Practicing Principle 8 in the ENPUD Community:

We testify that most of the tragic consequences are not because of the substances themselves or the way they are used; but because of the lack of control over the quality and composition of the substances; the promotion of stigma and legal discrimination to make society hate us. The consequence is tragic: we could not, and often now cannot, seek help in time.
Responsibility for ruined lives lies with the leaders of countries that support repressive drug policies. The only people who benefit from repressive drug policies are terrorists and corrupt officials who make super-profits by controlling the psychoactive substances illegal market.
Repressive drug policies use people who use non-alcoholic substances as slaves in incarceration.
We understand the differences between working in countries with human rights protections and authoritarian/totalitarian regimes. We do risk assessments and we take out of the country people who may be witnesses to corruption and the involvement of government officials, including law enforcement officials, in the trafficking of psychoactive substances.
We strive to make sure that everyone, anyone, has a paid advocate to protect the rights of people whose lives police tries to destroy for no other reason than that the person likes the effects of other psychoactive substances rather than alcohol.
The court is a platform for advocacy. We invest resources in keeping us free. As People with active citizenship, we are ready to publicize cases in countries where strategic cases can lead to acquittals by judges.
We are prepared to take risks, recognizing that fighting for our rights, freedoms and gender equality carries the risk of persecution by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
We create conditions and invest resources to provide an environment for advocacy while keeping us at liberty.

We affirm that in ENPUD it is unacceptable:

♦Stigma and discrimination regarding lifestyle, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, choice and mode of psychoactive substance use.
♦We have zero tolerance for all types of violence in the Community, in the family and in external relationships.
♦Sexism is unacceptable.
♦It is unacceptable to use addiction for enrichment, i.e. to live off the trade in illegal psychoactive substances. We advocate for legal psychoactive substance social clubs, with quality control, risk reduction counseling and benefit enhancement, with the cost of psychoactive substances that includes production + taxes.
♦It is unacceptable to use addiction to enrich ourselves by providing personal gain through private substitution treatment rooms. We work to ensure that access to our life-saving medication methadone and buprenorphine is provided at public expense/our tax dollars, among other things.
♦We may share a substance with a person to help relieve withdrawal; however, we never use substances for personal enrichment. Reimbursement is not included in enrichment.
♦It is unacceptable to lobby for commercial interests, personal benefits under the guise of belonging to the Community of People who Use Psychoactive Substances.

Leadership of the Community of People who Use Psychoactive Substances

We are an Organization under the governance of the General Assembly of ENPUD

We invest resources in developing the skills and competencies of ENPUD Community members to affect systemic change to restore us to our rights.
In ENPUD Community - direct meaningful participation with voting rights.

Powers of ENPUD's General Assembly:

✓Deciding who is in the Community team - composition of the General Assembly
✓Define the Strategy and Tactics: what results we are working for,
✓Decide on the purpose of the Community resources,
✓Select the Board, Secretary of the General Assembly; Program Coordinator;
✓Determine reconciliation points for progress toward goals and financial investments - monitoring by the Community;
✓Discuss and adopt all normative documents for ENPUD work: Charter, Policies, Procedures, Position Addresses; Regulations on the Community, on the Board, on the Secretary, on the Program Coordinator, on the Expert Councils, including amendments to existing documents.

The powers of the Secretary of the General Assembly:

✓Organization of General Assemblies, including preparation of minutes of the opening/closing of the General Assembly; communication with the Supervisory Board;
✓Providing a permanent open weekly online
platform to provide access to General Assembly members and                 
participants on progress towards achieving results; investing resources; and ensuring participation in the development of ENPUD Community normative documents:
✓Mobilize ENPUD Community members to participate meaningfully in decision-making, including monitoring.

 

Powers of the ENPUD Board: Control over compliance with the decisions of the General Assembly:

-Organizes, opens and closes General Assemblies by the minutes;
-confirms the targeted investment of the Community's resources: the Board signs grant agreements and memorandums with partners;
-Control over the progress of achieving the results adopted by the General Assembly: The Management Board decides on the composition of the Expert Councils and signs the certificates of completed work of the Executive Service (Program Coordinator, Secretary, financial expert) and ENPUD Expert Communities;
-Powers of the Ethics Committee: if a member fails to comply with these Regulations or other agreed rules; the Board shall inform the General Assembly of the situation, the action taken and put the decision to a vote of the General Assembly.

Powers of the Program Coordinator:
Administrative and financial management of resources based on decisions of the Board and General Assembly; including programmatic and financial reports on progress towards achieving results.

How we act to achieve results is decided by people - the teams of ENPUD's Expert Councils, including ENPUD's Executive Service.

Composition of the Councils - participants of the General Assembly who have the competence, time and motivation to achieve the result.

The Expert Councils are formed according to the topics of the results that the General Assembly has decided to achieve.

What result we are working for Adopted by Vote of the ENPUD General Assembly February 2024

1.Remove punishment with a substitution medicine.

2.The presence of psychoactive substances in the urine should not be a determinant for recognizing drug intoxication.

3.Narcofeminism practiced in ENPUD: In the ENPUD Community, women have equal access to resources and opportunities as men.

4.Resources for the Community under Community Stewardship.

5.Systematically monthly programmatic and financial reports on progress toward achieving the 4 objectives identified above.

 

The Expert Councils are autonomous to decide what actions to perform in order to achieve the results set by the General Assembly of the Community.

 

 

Principles for investing resources for systemic change and development of ENPUD

•Autonomy, not dependence on a source of provision. The targeting of resources is decided by the ENPUD Community General Assembly.
•Direct action, not recommendations. Community time and resources are dedicated to what we believe is important.
•We fight for redress by changing policies and enforcement practices. Focus on Results. Keeping people safe by finding optimal solutions.
•Rules and procedures work, not instructions. We base our work on jointly adopted rules and agreements, not on decisions of the governing body. All substantive issues may first be worked out by expert councils, but the General Meeting decides.
•Since the adoption of this ENPUD Community Regulation, we retain only voting membership/participation. Types of ENPUD Community Support: allies, partners, who want to support us, we will give opportunities for systemic donations to achieve goals; sign our ENPUD Community Position Papers and share ENPUD Community materials on social media with their supportive comments; invite for joint actions as needed.

Rights and freedoms have no borders. We are grateful to our brothers and sisters in the progressive countries of the world for the taxes and donations they contribute to the restoration of the rights of people who use psychoactive substances in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

We act in the interests of our citizens, we invest resources in protecting rights and freedoms, strengthening economies and empowering civilian monitoring of government and implementers.

Fearing revelations of corruption and torture, national governments have tried to destroy citizen participation in decision-making by creating foreign agent laws.

Distinguishing Civil Society from Foreign Agents: Whose interests we protect.

We cannot be foreign agents as we defend our civil rights and freedoms. We as a Community have the right to attract financial, expert, political and positioning assistance from international partners, allies and donors, both legal entities and private companies, including individual donations.

We are transparent as a Community about the partnerships from whom we take resources to achieve ENPUD Community outcomes from those whose goals, products, and ethics align with our Community mission and goals.

Conflict of interest at ENPUD

Definition of conflict of interest: diverting Community resources for personal gain only.

We have no conflict of interest with our Community. Our goal is to bring as many resources as possible under Community Stewardship to achieve results - to improve quality of life and to recover as people who appreciate psychoactive substances.

Preventing the occurrence of conflicts of interest:

• We do not vote for our own candidacy during elections in the ENPUD Community;
•By delegating our representative to competition committees, we keep our focus: fairness in the allocation of resources between Communities; prioritization of resources for proposals aimed at rapid help and/or systemic change with clear outcomes for people who use psychoactive substances;
•We require delegated representatives to report on their performance; to justify their decisions to the Community.
•ENPUD Community Board - Board meetings where decisions are made under the minutes - open to General Assembly attendees.
•The Board may receive remuneration only from the contributions of members and participants of the Community; to exclude the influence of employees of donor organizations on the Board.
•Until the conditions for receiving contributions from participants and participants in the General Meeting are established, the ENPUD Community provides the Board with life/health insurance or resources to restore health if health insurance is not available in the country.
•Board members may serve on the ENPUD Community Expert Councils. In this case, the result of the work, the evaluation of progress and the authorization of remuneration are decided by other Board members; informing the Community during the weekly open meetings of the General Assembly.

ENPUD Privacy Policy

Confidential information is information the disclosure of which carries negative consequences both individually and to all of us as a Community.

As long as people who use psychoactive substances are criminalized in the region, we cannot talk about the drug use experience, lifestyle, any medical, financial or any other personal information of ENPUD Community members. We tell about ourselves.

Personal Information For a strategic court case or story in an ENPUD Community publication only with the individual's personal authorization, including the support of loved ones who may be affected by disclosure. Authorization must be documented in writing with contacts of the trusted person(s).

Personal responsibility for what you write or say on the record.
We realize that we can't protect ourselves from hacking. Therefore, we forward and save only what we were willing to see in the public space.
- Personal responsibility for practicing the values and principles spelled out in this ENPUD Community regulation. The resources, reputation, and people of the Community must not be used to reinforce repressive corruption schemes.

Disciplinary Code:

ENPUD Community feedback on the substance of violations of values, principles, privacy rules:

It is important to realize that we have a responsibility to help each other show commitment issues and help set up proper communication within the ENPUD Community and externally.
In doing so, it is important for us to persist with like-minded people.

Procedure:

✓Record the violation and forward it to the Secretary of the ENPUD General Assembly via the official e-mail address
✓To the Secretary of the General Meeting of the ENPUD Community to organize an online meeting; to receive explanations; to provide support in realizing the mistake; to provide a moral compass to prevent further repetition;
✓minutes of the meeting to the ENPUD Community General Assembly mailing list with the Board's decision: 1) the participant accepted the feedback, it will not happen again; 2) the participant did not accept the feedback from the Community and the Board calls a General Assembly.
✓The General Assembly decides whether to keep or remove the participant from the ENPUD Community Assembly.

Practicing individual accountability for meaningful participation in institutional development and achievement of ENPUD Community outcomes; we:

competently participate in the development and adoption of ENPUD Community regulations.
systematically minimum 50% participation in the weekly online meetings of the General Assembly for the work of the Co-Community and coordination of actions;
are able to provide internet and technical capabilities for 100% participation in General Assemblies of the ENPUD Community; In the absence of force majeure: war, prison, illness, natural disasters, etc. From the side of ENPUD Community we assist in restoring access to the Internet, purchase of devices for work in case of emergency. If the participant or participant is in a city/country with access to power, internet, friends and NGOs nearby - in this case, we consider the refusal to vote for technical reasons as unreasonable.
We confirm our understanding of the importance of media in advocacy and fundraising. Therefore, I confirm that having personal social media and being connected to ENPUD Community groups and page, it is my responsibility to like, comment, repost with a supportive comment.
Understand that my participation/non-participation in the ENPUD Community is documented by the Secretary of the General Assembly.
Support the initiative to look for me if I am out of contact during the week; including the trusted contacts given to the ENPUD Community.
In case a member of the ENPUD Community Assembly continues to work, healthy, and at large, and systematically, without informing about problems, fails to fulfill the assumed obligations of this Regulation for six months, the ENPUD Community Assembly has the right to consider that the person's priorities have changed and he/she should not be waited on to make decisions.

Actions of the Secretary in such a case, if a participant of the General Assembly does not come in contact:

✓the e-mail address is paused in the official ENPUD/ENPUD Community mailing list (according to security rules; informing the participants of the General Assembly);
✓quorum of the ENPUD Community General Meeting loses a vote; the Board's minutes of the Convening General Meeting shall record the reasons for the decrease in quorum;
✓When re-prioritizing active participation in the ENPUD Community, the individual writes to the official ENPUD Community address indicating a willingness to participate in a meaningful way;
✓the e-mail address is returned to the official mailing list of the ENPUD/ENPUD Community, informing the participants of the General Assembly;
✓we return the vote to the quorum of the General Assembly of the ENPUD Community. In the minutes of the Board on Convening the General Assembly, the restoration of the quorum shall be recorded.

Voting Rules of the General Assembly

ENPUD Regulation 2024
1.1. This ENPUD Regulation is deemed to be adopted:
1.1.1.
If a quorum is present - 50%+1 of ENPUD's active voting members participated.
1.1.2.
With the adoption of this ENPUD Community Regulation, only voting members remain on the official mailing list, as supporting participation is abolished.

2. How the transition/voting for ENPUD participants to the General Assembly of the ENPUD Association takes place:
2.1.For current members of the ENPUD Community who, at the time the ENPUD Community Regulations are voted on, are voting members of the General Meeting:
2.2.Fixing the willingness to continue working in the ENPUD Community Assembly team - within 15 working days - completion of the ENPUD Community Provision Questionnaire - by voting members of the ENPUD Community.
2.2.1.The Secretary of the General Assembly sends a personalized written reminder-notice to everyone to complete a questionnaire to confirm their willingness to participate in the ENPUD Community with voting rights.
2.2.2.ENPUD voting participants who have not been able to complete the questionnaire in 15 days: are incarcerated or for health reasons cannot, upon return to freedom or recovery, go through the process according to the rules of the Section: How does the acceptance of new members into the ENPUD General Assembly, of these ENPUD Community Regulations take place.
2.3.The Board shall by Minutes open the General Assembly by attaching to the Minutes the completed voting forms for each voting member of ENPUD.

3. There are three options under each questionnaire:
3.1.Option - for - ready to work together
3.2.Option - against - not ready to work together; the questionnaire is fraudulent and here is the proof. Against’ must be justified.
3.3.Option - do not know the person, we need to meet to get acquainted.
3.4.Can't vote for myself.

4.Quorum - is counted from the number of people who have sent questionnaires to participate with voting rights in the ENPUD Community, who have filled out the questionnaires.

5.The participants of the ENPUD Community General Assembly vote on each candidate, confirming the credibility of the data provided in the questionnaire and the willingness to work together.
5.1.Those who received the support of 100% of the votes of the participants and attendees of the General Assembly are transferred to the General Assembly of the Association “ENPUD/Community ENPUD” with the right to vote;
5.2.Those who have received feedback that there are reasonable confirmations that the questionnaire presented untrustworthy data, or put “abstained”, it is necessary to meet to get acquainted - are invited to a meeting with the Board and the General Assembly for an online meeting with a record: agree or disagree with the feedback, justification of actions.
5.3.Re-run the General Assembly for candidates and nominees whose questionnaire answers are questioned, detailing the explanations/justifications.
5.3.1.Our approach is that it is important to forgive a mistake once, if the person has realized and understands what the mistake was; then there is a chance that it will not happen again.
5.3.2.We agree to hold two consecutive General Assemblies on candidates whose motivation or actions are questionable.
5.3.3.If, after consultations with the candidate, the decision of the second General Assembly is not supported, then there will be a refusal.

6.The decision of the General Meeting shall always be recorded in the Minutes of the ENPUD Community Board.

7.In order to attract observers of the voting process, the ENPUD Board shall form a list of experts whom the Board shall recommend to the commission.
7.1.The Secretary of the General Assembly shall communicate with the candidates proposed by the Board to the Supervisory Commission.
7.2.The composition of the Supervisory Commission shall be renewed: no more than five consecutive participation in the Commission, and it is better to renew the composition; so that more partners and allies of the ENPUD Community understand the transparency and accountability of the Community processes.

8.Voting is open - i.e. the voting record shows who voted how. Transparency implies a willingness to speak openly about one's opinion and to back it up with evidence.

Rules for the admission of new members to the ENPUD General Assembly:

Application process to become a voting member of the ENPUD Community

We invest time and resources in expanding opportunities to engage people who use psychoactive substances across sub-groups and across age and substance types; we share the values and motivation for systemic change and engagement in drug policy reform.

1.personal application of the candidate to the ENPUD official address about the intention to join ENPUD Communities with the completed questionnaire ENPUD Community Regulation.

2.The Secretary of the ENPUD General Assembly Informs the Community about the consultation process with the candidate and
forwards the candidate's questionnaire to the official ENPUD Community mailing list.
2.1.We give ourselves up to ten working days to scrutinize the provided data for feedback from the Community. This is the time to make sure that the data is accurate.
2.2.It is the duty of the Community members to say if a candidate has submitted false data and there is documented evidence of inconsistencies of actions with what the person declares.

3.The Secretary of the ENPUD General Assembly prepares an online meeting of the General Assembly, including the Board, with the candidate.
3.1.The purpose of the meeting: to clarify issues that may have arisen, to help the candidate strengthen his/her position to get 100% support from the ENPUD General Community Assembly.
3.2.Meetings are documented with minutes and forwarded to the official mailing list of voting members of the ENPUD Community.

4.The decision on inclusion in the ENPUD Community is made by the General Assembly of the ENPUD Community. The General Assembly is convened by the Board of the ENPUD Community.

5.Act in accordance with Sections 2.3 through 8.0 of How ENPUD participants transition/vote to the General Assembly based on these ENPUD Community Regulations.

 

 

Questionnaire of a candidate to the General Assembly of ENPUD

We translate the questionnaire into national languages and you can fill it out in the language you are comfortable with.

1.Surname First Name Patronymic/Matronymic
2.Nationality (if any)
3.Country of residence
4.Contact - e-mail, phone number
5.Contact person (who to call in case you do not get in touch within two weeks)
6.Date of birth (congratulations:)
7.Experience of psychoactive substance use - how long, what substances do you understand?
8.Social networks - links
9.what languages you know, any level is important
10.your competency skills that you are ready to apply in achieving the ENPUD Community's goals. All skills are important: from the ability to cook to negotiate effectively at the government level.
11.Description of experience in creating and developing harm reduction programs, including prevention and access to treatment for people vulnerable to rights violations. Advocacy with details with whom and for whom you worked/are working.
12.In which groups, structures you are a member of as a representative of the Community, indicating who delegated you.
13.Write the organizations you have worked/are working for (not volunteering) in the last 2 years.
14.How your personal plans and actions align with achieving ENPUD's strategic and tactical community outcomes.
15. Confirmation section to follow the principles and rules of the ENPUD Community:
✓I affirm a commitment to the principle of advocacy for our rights and freedoms: unity of Community position; support for each other's authority and the initiatives of Community-led leaders and organizations.
✓I confirm my willingness to work without humiliating or jeopardizing the authority and influence of the Community participants. Working differences are
clarified and agreed upon in dialog. It is possible to undermine authority by inaction; we must not remain silent when people from the Community are insulted or humiliated. I reaffirm my willingness to stop talking and try to restore respect for the people and organizations run by the Community.
16.I affirm my and my loved ones' willingness to see me publicly positioned as an activist for the rights and freedoms of responsible psychoactive substance use.
•yes
•no
•I'm ready and my loved ones are supportive, but I can't be public right now, I'll let you know about changes right away.
•depending on the focus of Community action, we discuss each case separately and obtain my authorization (in accordance with the rules of the Confidential Information section of these Regulations).
Optionally put a comment box
17.I certify my ability:
17.1.Competently participate in the development and adoption of normative documents of the ENPUD Community
17.2.I commit to a systematic minimum of 50% participation in weekly online meetings of the General Assembly for the work of the Assembly and coordination of actions;
17.3.I certify the ability to provide internet and technical capabilities to 100% participate in ENPUD Community General Assemblies; In the absence of force majeure circumstances of insuperable force: war; prison, illness, natural disasters, etc.
17.4.I affirm my understanding of the importance of media in advocacy and fundraising. Therefore I confirm that having personal social media and being connected to the groups and page of ENPUD Community - I will give you a basic like, comment, repost with a supportive comment.
17.5.I understand that my participation/non-participation in ENPUD life is documented by the Secretary of the General Assembly. I support the initiative to look for me in case I am out of contact for a week; including the trusted contacts given to the ENPUD Community.
17.6.I confirm that in the event that I continue to work, healthy, and at liberty, while systematically, without reporting problems, failing to fulfill the assumed obligations of this Regulation for a period of six months, the General Assembly of the ENPUD Community has the right to consider that my priorities have changed and I do not have to be waited on to make decisions.
17.7. Actions of the Secretary in the event of my non-participation:
17.7.1.my e-mail address is paused in the official ENPUD mailing list (according to security rules; with informing the participants of the General Meeting);
17.7.2.A quorum of the ENPUD Community General Assembly loses my vote; the Board's minutes of the Convening of the General Assembly shall record the reasons for the decrease in quorum.
17.7.3.When priorities are reestablished to actively participate in ENPUD, I write to the official ENPUD Community address about my willingness to participate meaningfully.
17.7.3.1.my e-mail address is returned to the official ENPUD mailing list to inform the participants of the General Assembly;
17.7.3.2.my vote is returned to the quorum of the ENPUD General Assembly. The minutes of the Board on Convening the General Assembly shall record the restoration of the quorum.
18.I hereby confirm the authorization to publish my answers in the official ENPUD newsletter for the General Assembly to decide on my candidacy.