 My first taste of drug is when I'm 15. I involved with drugs problematically for 20 years. I was sentenced to prison for two times for a small possession of herring during that time and two times to rehab centre. And actually it doesn't stop me from using as I'm currently using. The so-called war on drugs is given by the idea that crackdown on people who use drugs or who are involved in the drug trade, the drug problem will go away. 20% of the prison population now on detention for drug-related offenses including for personal use of drugs. People who use drugs do not forfeit their human rights by virtue of their drug use and that in parallel ensure that their other rights are met as well, in particular the right to the highest attainable standard of health. We are witnessing in some cases increasing human rights violations related to the drug control efforts. This includes extrajudicial killings. The fear of criminalisation, of arrest and of punishment acts as a huge structural barrier that drives people away from seeking health and harm reduction services such as HIV prevention services, needle and syringe programmes for example and has led to an epidemic of HIV amongst people who inject drugs globally. With the criminal record that I hold as a prisoner for the small possession of herring at that time there's no way that I can do even inhaling job. I cannot do grab or I cannot help others. We are asking state to change to move from the punitive approach. Policy changes could also help the criminal justice system to take away the pressure from them only for this crime.