Event: Understanding Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision (SIPP) and ways forward

December 13, 2024

On December 12th 2024, a hybrid meeting organised by a Haringey Public Health, Release, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C (LJWG), brought 70 public health experts, academics front line drugs workers and other interested individuals together to hear the latest research on the potential impact of safer inhalation pipe provision and the legal situation of this harm reduction approach.

Insights were provided by:

1. Professor Magdalena Harris, LSHTM: Overview of the Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision (SIPP) Project
2. Dee Cunniffe, LJWG: Hackney Harm Reduction Project experience and data gathering
3. Jason Kew, Berkshire Combating Drugs Partnership: Enabling the provision of crack pipes with a partnership agreement

Participants then discussed the issues and potential next steps.

Contact us at elliot@principleconsulting.org.uk if you would like to know more.