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?
Archives for April 2013
Colored City: Recreational drug use in Belgrade
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
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’
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
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
Our video report from the panel discussion “Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor”
Portugal Bans Legal Highs
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.