Step inside the UK’s first legal safer drug consumption room. In Drugreporter’s new video, Lynn MacDonald, service manager at The Thistle, takes us through a space built not only for life-saving safer use, but for compassion, dignity, and respect — putting care and humanity at the center of the service.

Leor Roseman is a psychedelic researcher whose work explores both the individual and collective dimensions of psychedelic experience — from DMT interruption studies to intergroup healing in the Israeli-Palestinian context. In this interview, we discuss how psychedelics may open space not only for personal transformation, but also for collective reconciliation.

For generations, drug prevention has told young people to “just say no,” while failing to ask what they actually need in order to say yes to life.

Psychedelic therapy can offer spiritual validation and gender euphoria for trans and non-binary people — Jae Sevelius explains what truly affirming psychedelic care means in practice.

Colorado is the second U.S. state to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms. During the Psychedelic Science conference in June 2025, Drugreporter visited ETC Hospitality in Golden, Colorado — a newly licensed natural medicine healing center — to see how psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy will be practiced in real-world settings.

CORE was a successful European Union–funded project aimed at reducing inequalities by strengthening community responses and addressing gaps in mainstream HIV and other STI prevention and healthcare services, particularly in EU Member States where such responses are limited. Drugreporter proudly presents this short video summarising the project’s results.

Explore key speeches and sessions recorded at the Scottish Drugs Forum’s annual conference in Glasgow.

Regardez les enregistrements vidéo des sessions de la rencontre organisée dans le cadre du projet CORE par la Fédération Parapluie Rouge et Médecins du Monde, en collaboration avec le European AIDS Treatment Group et la European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance.

This DUNews video is dedicated to three key topics that today determine the future of Ukrainian drug policy and the healthcare system: the use of psychoactive substances in the treatment of various conditions, the full-fledged legalization of medical cannabis and the introduction of national standards, as well as the revision of Order No. 188 on minimum dosages of psychoactive substances based on European recommendations.

In most European cities, services for people who use drugs are scattered across the map, fragmented by funding lines, bureaucratic boundaries, or political controversy. Vienna chose a different path. Our new film takes viewers inside Suchthilfe Wien, one of the most comprehensive and integrated municipal addiction-care systems in Europe — a place where essential services are not only coordinated, but physically under one roof.