International Awareness Day
International Drug Users Remembrance Day is a health awareness day observed on 21 July each year. It is a day where friends and family can meet together to memorialise and remember loved ones whose lives were cut short due to drug use and the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs.
It is also a day to remember everyone who has worked to advance the health and human rights of people who use drugs, many of whom have provided services borne out of civil disobedience such as needle and syringe programs and medically supervised injecting center's which have saved many lives.
When talking about what it meant to him, as a young drug user, Matthew Bonn said: 
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Bonn also talks about specific friends that he had lost to drug use and tells some of their stories.
It is similar to International Overdose Awareness Day (31 August) and International Drug Users Day (1 November).
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