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 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.

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 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.

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.

You have likely heard of a new group of synthetic substances, Nitazines, increasingly sold on illicit drug markets in North America and in Europe. We interviewed Shayla Schlossenberg, Drug Service Coordinator at Release, a UK-based drug policy and human rights NGO.

How does the use of new psychoactive substances, such as “herbal” or “crystal”, affect the Hungarian countryside and cities in 2024? How does Hungarian society treat the users of these drugs? Drug users, ex-dealers, the mayor, helpers and experts answer these questions in a new documentary by Drugreporter.

CORE – COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities aims to reduce inequalities in the HIV, TB and viral hepatitis responses by promoting, strengthening and integrating community responses that have proven key in reaching communities that have been traditionally underserved by mainstream prevention and healthcare services. Watch the introduction video by Drugreporter!

This report gives an insight into how governments involve civil society in drug policy decision-making in four European countries.

After decades of advocacy by civil society, the government finally approved the opening of the first drug consumption room in Slovenia. On this occasion we interviewed Katja Krajnc from the NGO Stigma, a leading harm reduction organisation in the country.