Drugreporter's video advocacy team travelled to Mexico in 2010 to film about the negative consequences of the war on drugs campaign launched by President Felipe Calderon in 2006. When we first entered the country, the number of people killed in the war was approaching 40,000. Today, the death toll is approximately 60,000.
News and Films from the Frontline of the War on Drugs
On September 9 and 10, 2024, Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN), in collaboration with Drugreporter, hosted an Advocacy Workshop for harm reductionists in Budapest. You can now watch the recap video of the event here!
NEWS AND FILMS FROM THE FRONTLINE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS SINCE 2004
The Boost Project: Inform, Improve, Support, Connect & Act
The BOOST project aims to support and strengthen community-based and community-led organisations in providing communicable diseases services as part of comprehensive, people-centred harm reduction strategies. Drugreporter produced this short video at a dynamic Advocacy Workshop in Budapest in the framework of the BOOST Project.
CORE – Community Response to End Inequalities: Mid-Term Results on Video
CORE is a 36 months EU project that aims to reduce inequalities in the HIV, TB and viral hepatitis responses and involves 24 partners from 16 EU Member States. In these short videos, produced by Drugreporter, you can witness the progress that implementing organisations on the ground achieved with the help of CORE.
20 years of opioid substitution therapy (OST) in Ukraine
This new documentary film presents the history of 20 years of opioid substitution therapy in Ukraine, from the 1990s of the 20th century to the present day. This is a story of success and confirmation of the importance of OST programs as an effective tool for harm reduction for the community of people who use drugs.
DRUG CONSUMPTION ROOMS Around the World
Drug Consumption Rooms are safe spaces where people can use drugs under hygienic conditions, with support, and without fear of violence or legal repercussions. Today, more than 140 legally-sanctioned DCRs operate in 11 European countries, as well as in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Join us on a global video tour to discover why they were established, how they support their local communities and how these life-saving harm reduction facilities have evolved over time.
The Challenge of the Emerging Semi-Synthetic Cannabinoid Market in Europe
The lucrative and unregulated market of semi-synthetic cannabinoids is rapidly expanding across Europe, raising public health concerns and posing a legislative challenge to policymakers. The solution lies not in prohibition but in regulation.
Harm Reduction Advocacy – Webinar Series
We present you the video recordings of the four webinars we organised in collaboration with the Correlation European Harm Reduction Network to strengthen harm reduction advocacy across Europe.
Drugreporter works closely with Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN) to advance harm reduction in Europe!
Drug Consumption Rooms are safe spaces where people can use drugs under hygienic conditions, with support, and without fear of violence or legal repercussions. Join us on a global video tour to discover why they were established, how they support their local communities and how these life-saving harm reduction facilities have evolved over time.
The Advocacy Mentorship Programme
On September 9 and 10, 2024, Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN), in collaboration with Drugreporter, hosted an Advocacy Workshop for harm reductionists in Budapest. You can now watch the recap video of the event here!
The Boost Project: Inform, Improve, Support, Connect & Act
The BOOST project aims to support and strengthen community-based and community-led organisations in providing communicable diseases services as part of comprehensive, people-centred harm reduction strategies. Watch the video here!
Critical Partners: The Role of Civil Society in Drug Policies in Four EU Countries
This report gives an insight into how governments involve civil society in drug policy decision-making in four European countries.
Péter Sárosi and István Gábor Takács of Drugreporter held a series of webinars on advocacy form harm reductionists. You can now watch the video recording of all 4 webinars here!
Drugreporter is the communications partner of the EU project CORE – COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities
We have been producing documentary films about drug policy reform and harm reduction advocacy since 2007.
Our latest film: ABANDONED – Designer Drugs on the Margins of Hungarian Society (with English subtitles)
A selection of Drugreporter's most popular documentaries
If you only watch one video about drug policy, be it this one!
The Human Rights Costs of the War on Drugs
World renowned experts explain the most serious problems with the drug war in only 8 minutes!
This film takes us through one day in the life of eight people, from seven cities, in seven different countries of the world, from morning until night. They all have something in common - all of them use drugs. But these people are not defined by their drug use.
"The film gives us an astonishingly intimate look at the lives, tribulations and inspiring resilience of drug using human beings." Gabor Maté M.D."
Our award winning animated documentary is based on the original audio recording of Kostya Proletarsky, a drug user and HIV activist who died as a result of mistreatment and torture at a Russian prison. The hand drawn animation film was awarded the Best Short Documentary award at the Madrid Film and Human Rights Festival and the Best Documentary award of the 65th Hungarian National Independent Film festival in 2020. Click here for the official web page.
Our Just Say Know video series aim to educate the public about drugs, drug polices and harm reduction in a simple, easy-to-understand way, using the power of video advocacy and social media networks.
Russian language videos on drug policy, harm reduction and human rights.
Igor Kuzmenko, a filmmaker and co-founder of the Drug Users News (DUNews) documentary studio, needs your help! Please make a donation today to support his work to produce a series of documentaries about the community of people who use drugs in Ukraine during the war. Movies about the people, organizations, and networks that save thousands of Ukrainians from death and give hope every day.
The Drug Lords International came to Vienna to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 2011. When the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961, most people did not expect that 50 years later nobody will celebrate the anniversary of global drug prohibition but a group of drug lords. Drug prohibition created a lucrative black market that generates annual revenue of 320 billion dollars for organized crime: who else have a better reason to celebrate?
Video reports from the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) since 2008
Drugreporter News
In this episode: Two New US States Legalised Cannabis. Colorado Decriminalised the Use of Psychedelics. Key Points of German Cannabis Regulation Leaked to the Press. Italy Bans Raves and Free Parties. Racist Drug War in Brazil. Harm Reduction Advocate Elected to Danish Parliament.
Drugreporter Café
Drugreporter interviewed Jason Eligh, senior analyst of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Oranized Crime, to learn about the health and social impact of cannabis legalization in Canada.
Drugreporter is the official filmmaker of the largest international harm reduction gatherings, since 2008. We make interviews, live stream sessions and discussions to give you an insight on what is happening with this movement around the world. This is the summary video of the 2023 conference, we edited it during the event and showed it at the closing ceremony. You can find all the videos we shot at the conference, here.
Covering International Conferences, Events and Issues
Browse videos produced by members of our international activist videographer network. Many of them are alumni of our video advocacy and media training courses.
Sharing of injecting equipment by people who use drugs leads to infections, such as Hepatitis C or HIV. Discarded needles on the streets are not welcomed by people who live in the area. The solution does not lie in the hands of the police – arresting people who use drugs does not reduce the number of drug users, but pushes them to use in a more risky way, and to discard their needles as soon as possible. The old ways of fighting drug problems don’t work. This is a campaign to find new solutions – to provide room for change. Participant cities: Athens, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Lisbon, Sofia and Warsaw.
DRUG POLICY ADVOCACY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
The New EU Drug Agency Seeks Stronger Partnership with Civil Society
The EU’s drug monitoring agency organised a meeting with civil society in Lisbon to discuss future cooperation outlined in its new mandate. Read this short report from the meeting by Marie Nougier (IDPC) and Peter Sarosi!
Cooperation for effective drug policies: The role of regional civil society mechanisms in realizing joint commitments | CND 2024
Watch the session at the 67th CND, organised by the he African Union Commission with the support of the UNODC Civil Society Unit, the Africa Civil Society Forum on Drugs, the European Union Civil Society Forum on Drugs, the POS Foundation, the Slum Child Foundation and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs.
Exploring Legal Regulations in Europe
Civil society activists and decision makers discuss new drug policies that address the emerging drug policy challenges in Europe, and the importance of facilitating a broader public conversation on these matters. Our video presents a side event at the 67th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).
In this section Drugreporter provides regular updates about resources and news on how harm reduction service providers respond to the COVID-19 Epidemic.
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