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Struggles of drug users in the Serbian healthcare system

2013. May 23.

Injecting drug users in Serbia face serious discrimination, in spite of apparent protection from the country's legal system, and its ambitions on the EU stage.

APDES: Prohibition on legal highs will not work

2013. May 15.

 

In this article, EDPI's Portuguese partner organization, APDES, argues against the recent ban on legal highs. They claim that prohibition will only drive the legal-highs trade underground, making it far harder to deal with.

Methamphetamine trade on rise at German-Czech border

2013. April 26.

Methamphetamine consumption is on the rise in Germany - supplied primarily from the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. But what's behind the recent success of this cheap and addictive substance?

Colored City: Recreational drug use in Belgrade

2013. April 24.

How does the Belgrade underground party scene look like trough the eyes on a local anthropologist - read the story of our Serbian EDPI partner.

Media scholarships - call for application

2013. April 17.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) is offering 10 media scholarships to eligible journalists to attend the International Harm Reduction Conference 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Queen of the ‘Legal Highs’

2013. April 11.

Mephedrone has proved to be the most successful of the recent wave of novel psychoactive drugs to have appeared on the European recreational market. The only ‘legal high’ to have managed to enter users’ repertoires even after being banned in most countries, it also raised the question of how ‘phantom’ narcotics are to be dealt with.

Evo Morales at the CND in 2013

2013. April 11.

Watch the full speech of Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, march 2013. Now with English and Spanish subtitles.

Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor

2013. April 10.

Our video report from the panel discussion "Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor"

Portugal Bans Legal Highs

2013. April 1.

Following the example of many other EU member states, Portugal has recently approved a restrictive law on legal highs – threatening to push the use of new psychoactive substances into the shadows.

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