The use of drug criminalisation as the legal basis for some 60% of all stops in England and Wales exemplifies the role of punitive drug policy in expanding the reach and harms of policing.

WHRIN and TalkingDrugs highlight how women and non-binary people who use drugs are developing responses to the harms at the intersection of gender and drug prohibition in ways that provide space to collectively heal and undermine systems of policing, punishment and surveillance.