Drug Policy and Law

Mar 6, 2020

Péter Sárosi

How to Make a New EU Drugs Strategy?

The EU Drugs Strategy (2013-20) expires this year and there are huge gaps in its implementation. Policy documents that are not enforced damage the credibility of the EU. To avoid this, we should revise the paradigm and create a new framework for actions.

Feb 21, 2020

Péter Sárosi

Cannabis Legalisation Has Arrived in Europe: Civil Society Should Not Be Silent

It is time for drug professionals, including the harm reduction community, to have a say about the upcoming regulation of the European cannabis market. If not, we miss an important historical opportunity to shape the future.

Dec 17, 2019

Péter Sárosi

The Unchallenged Rule of the Designer Drugs in Hungary

Although the drug strategy adopted by the Hungarian government in 2013 aimed to make the country drug-free by 2020, the (not so) new synthetic drugs still rule the country. After the municipal elections, there is some hope that harm reduction can return to Budapest.

Oct 21, 2019

Péter Sárosi

Drug Users are not Damaging the Environment, the War on Drugs is

It is not our search for pleasure that is so damaging to the environment, but corporal greed, social injustice, and inequality.

Oct 17, 2019

Péter Sárosi

What Works on the Ground in Europe? – 4 Case Studies

In this report we present four best practices in the field of drug demand and harm reduction from three countries. With this report, we would like to promote the culture of evaluation both among civil society organisations and decision makers.

Sep 19, 2019

István Gábor Takács

Nonexistent? We Exist!

‘Nonexistent? We Exist!’ is a documentary film about the communities of people living with HIV in Russia. It tells the story of how the members of the most vulnerable communities affected by the HIV epidemic, such as drug users, sex workers, and LGBTQ people, struggle for survival and dignity in a hostile cultural and political environment.

Aug 14, 2019

Xenia Grubstein

Peace & Coca

Watch Xenia Grubstein’s documentary trilogy inspired by the life of Colombian coca growers both amidst the recent peace talks and afterwards.

Aug 5, 2019

Jonathan Brozdowski

We Are Not Reaching The Worst Victims of Domestic Violence

One in three women will be assaulted by her intimate partner in her lifetime, but the most vulnerable of them will be deathly afraid of seeking help. Why? The inescapable stigma surrounding drug use.

Jul 11, 2019

Péter Sárosi

“Marseilles Bears a Heavy Stigma of Drug Trafficking and Use” – An Interview with Beatrice Stambul

The city of Marseilles decided to open its first drug consumption room. Read our interview with Beatrice Strambul, who has been in the forefront of the harm reduction movement in France since the 1990s.

May 24, 2019

Péter Sárosi

Poppi: Drugs Museum Amsterdam – Interview with Machteld Busz

A leading Dutch harm reduction organisation, Mainline, launched a crowdfunding campaign to open the first ever museum dedicated to drugs. Read our interview with Machteld Busz, the director of Mainline – and support their cause!

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Drug Policy and Law

How to Make a New EU Drugs Strategy?

Cannabis Legalisation Has Arrived in Europe: Civil Society Should Not Be Silent

The Unchallenged Rule of the Designer Drugs in Hungary

Drug Users are not Damaging the Environment, the War on Drugs is

What Works on the Ground in Europe? – 4 Case Studies

Nonexistent? We Exist!

Peace & Coca

We Are Not Reaching The Worst Victims of Domestic Violence

“Marseilles Bears a Heavy Stigma of Drug Trafficking and Use” – An Interview with Beatrice Stambul

Poppi: Drugs Museum Amsterdam – Interview with Machteld Busz

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