Welcome to Hi-Ground. We’re a community driven platform that aims to educate, reduce harm and give support to people who use drugs.
Find out more ↓The aim of this website is to create a safe and inclusive community for people who use drugs. We hope that by providing a space free from judgement and damaging stigmatisation and instead offering support and harm reduction education we can improve the health and wellbeing of our fellow Queenslanders and broader Australian Community.
We also wish to acknowledge the harm done to communities, families and individuals affected by punitive drug policies, to those who have lost their lives, families torn apart due to incarceration and those that face discrimination and stigma.
Hi-Ground a super excite to publish an updated version of ‘A little book of love, empowerment and harm reduction’. This booklet update is inspired by learning through storytelling and the narcofeminist storyshare model, highlighting the diverse experiences of women who use substances. By framing each story with a content introduction and concluding with relevant resources … Continued
This resource booklet was developed by people with lived-living experience, peer educators, clinicians, and researchers. It is for the community, by the community, blending peer harm reduction knowledge with research and clinical insight. Inside the booklet, you will find:– Safer injecting practices– Understanding half-life & pharmacokinetics– Health monitoring– Blood tests– Women’s experiences– Unregulated market data– … Continued
PROJECT RESULTS: WAVE 1 REPORT Link to Wave1 Results WAVE 2 REPORT Link to Wave 2 Results WAVE 2 HARM REDUCTION INFORMATION Link to Wave 2 Extra Harm Reduction Resource WAVE 3 REPORT Link to Wave 3 Results WAVE 4 REPORT [LATEST!] Link to Wave 4 Results Steroid Checking Trial background: Globally, 3.3% of the … Continued
Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use, the latest Sociological Review monograph, aims to shift the sociological focus on drug use from a feminist concern with how drugs are used as regulatory technologies to control the conduct of women and other minoritised people, to an exploration of what drugs can do as a feminist practice. Guest edited by … Continued
A Position Paper from the Women and Harm Reduction International Network and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs. “Women who use drugs are reported to experience disproportionate levels of stigma and discrimination, often compounded during pregnancy, and also as mothers” (p.3) . In some countries, such as Russia and Ukraine, pregnant women who … Continued
This is a conversation with the WHRIN Network (Women’s Harm Reduction International Network) on Women and Non-binary People who use drugs and challenges faced when aging.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and First Nations peoples lands of where our offices are located in Meeanjin (Turrbal name for Brisbane CBD). We also acknowledge the First Nations peoples lands of our site visitors. We recognise that these have always been places of continued culture, teaching and learning.
We wish to pay respect to their Elders – past, present and emerging – and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within health services and the harm reduction community, by providing services that are culturally appropriate and safe.
As a health service we recognise the harm and destruction colonisation has had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and aim to be as inclusive and welcoming to all communities from our large and diverse island home.
