Dr. Bijan Nassirimanesh is a medical doctor, one of the founders of Persepolis, the first NGO providing needle exchange service in Iran.
Harm Reduction
Milena Naydenova – myths vs. information
Milena Naydenova is an active drug user, founding member of a user group in Bulgaria and a member of the Internal Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), www.inpud.org
Stijn Goossens – What is INPUD?
Stijn is the head of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), more info: www.inpud.org
Dagmar Hedrich – Study on Consumption Rooms
Dagmar Hedrich is a leading researcher of the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), a Lisbon based, de-centralized agency of the European Union responsible for data collection and analysis on drug use and drug policies. She was the head of a team conducting a study on the effectiveness of consumption rooms.
Eberhard Schatz – about Dutch consumption rooms
Eberhard Schatz is the head of an Amsterdam-based harm reduction NGO, AMOC, which operates a drop-in and consumption room for injecting drug users with foreign nationality. According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, consumption rooms can succesfully reduce drug related harms, especially drug overdoses and HIV infections.
Drug Policy Gumbo
Report from the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, New Orleans.
Konsumraum Nidda 49
Az ártalomcsökkentés frankfurti példája.
Opiate substitution in Hungary
Trends, challanges and barriers.
Error in the matrix
According to official statistics the Hungarian man overdosed on Ecstasy – in reality, he was run over by a train.
New forums for lobbying
HCLU is now represented at two major decision making forums in the field of drug policy.