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 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.

Report from the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, New Orleans.

Az ártalomcsökkentés frankfurti példája.

Trends, challanges and barriers.

According to official statistics the Hungarian man overdosed on Ecstasy – in reality, he was run over by a train.

HCLU is now represented at two major decision making forums in the field of drug policy.

The media monitoring and mistake correcting program has been awarded in Wienna last week.

Sam Sullivan, Mayor of Vancouver speaks about drug addiction as a management issue at the DPA Conference, New Orleans.

HCLU won a Freedom of information lawsuit against the Hungarian Ministry of Health for withholding a position paper on the dangerousness of illicit substances. After receiving the document HCLU issued a comprehensive study as a critique.