How does the Belgrade underground party scene look like trough the eyes on a local anthropologist – read the story of our Serbian EDPI partner.
European Drug Policy
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.
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.
Children of the Bucharest Sewer System
We visited a street outreach program of ARAS, an NGO fighting HIV among the most vulnerable people of Romania
Polish Addiction Ombudsman: Avoiding punishment is not enough
The 2011 amendment of the Polish drug law was a good first step, but a lot more has to be done to help people with addictions and strengthen the effectiveness of the country's harm reduction efforts.
Bulgaria after US marijuana legalization
Just days after cannabis was legalised in Colorado and Washington states, regulation of weed became a new hot issue in Bulgaria, after two fundamentally different poll results were published.
An insight into the work of a harm reduction NGO in Portugal
Drugreporter proudly presents the second part of HCLU’s documentary on Portugal’s reformist drug policy approach.
Debating the next EU drug strategy
Real decriminalization efforts are still lagging behind in Europe because of foot-dragging on the part of member states, Drugreporter learned at a Brussels conference dedicated to the EU's next drug strategy.
“Drugs: the end of war?” – Global Commission on Drug Policy meets
Prominent Polish politicians and celebrities have expressed their belief in the need for a move away from prohibition-based drug policies and the promotion of a science-based approach, under the umbrella of The Global Commission on Drug Policy.