INPUD and NSWP release joint Briefing Paper on Sex Workers Who Use Drugs
Double Criminalisation, Stigma, and Discrimination
The Briefing Paper stresses that sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation as a result of their drug use and sex work. They also face double stigma, discrimination, social exclusion, and violence, due to both drug-userphobia and sex-workerphobia. Sex workers who use drugs face stigma, discrimination, and violence from the police, health and social care providers, as well as from the community, and their families.