The Hungarian government took over the EU presidency – please remind them to follow the principles of evidence-based EU policies!

The HCLU presents its study on risks related to blood borne and sexually transmitted infections and drug use in the Hungarian prison system, based on interviews with formerly incarcerated injecting drug users.

Learn what’s going on in Mexico from these interesting presentations filmed at the Harm Reduction Conference in Austin, Texas, on November 19, 2010.

Watch the full length video of the analysis by Ethan Nadelmann, presented at the 8th National Harm Reduction Conference in Austin, USA. UPDATE – Now with full text transcription!

Criminalisation of drug possession does not help to decrease illicit drug consumption. Instead, it distracts the attention and energy of the police from the real originators of the problem: mass producers and major and minor drug dealers – write the signatories of the letter of support, including former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, for liberalizing drug policy in Poland.

Jack Cole, a former anti-narcotics policeman and a founding member of LEAP visited Central-Europe

Watch HCLU’s new movie on a new manifesto for urban drug policies based on evidence and human rights!

Drugreporter’s film outlines Switzerland’s successful drug policy

The Vienna Declaration is now available in five more languages thanks to the European Drug Policy Initiative (EDPI)

The Vienna Declaration is now available in five more languages thanks to the European Drug Policy Initiative (EDPI)