Last year, Drugreporter gave a detailed account of the attack on harm reduction in Budapest, which resulted in the closure of the two largest needle and syringe programs. This year, we have produced a movie, based on interviews with key professionals and drug users, about what has changed on the streets of the District 8 of Budapest since then. Watch our video with English subtitles!

Watch this inspiring video interview with a Catalan harm reduction activist, about how drug consumption rooms have helped to reduce drug problems in Barcelona!

Please watch our video interview with a Catalan cannabis activist, about how political attitudes to cannabis are changing in Spain.

Our advocacy film has won the award for best documentary at the Kreatív Magazine’s annual webvideo contest.

On 6-10 July, 2015, fifteen activists participated in video advocacy training provided by the HCLU and the Indonesian Drug Users’ Network (PKNI) in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Slovakia needs to find a common solution to guarantee harm reduction for all in need – argues a local harm reduction provider, Odyseus, in a video produced jointly with Drugreporter.

Folosirea în comun a echipamentului de injectare de către consumatorii de droguri duce la răspândirea bolilor infecțioase precum hepatita C sau HIV. Persoanele care locuiesc în zonele respective nu privesc cu ochi buni seringile aruncate pe stradă. Soluția nu poate veni de la poliție – arestarea persoanelor care consumă droguri nu reduce numărul acestor, ci îi împinge către comportamente mai riscante și la aruncarea seringilor cât rapid după folosire. Vechile metode de luptă împotriva problemelor legate de droguri nu funcționează. Aceasta este o campanie de găsire a unor noi soluții – de a fa…

Zdieľanie pomôcok na injikovanie medzi ľuďmi, ktorí injekčne užívajú drogy vedie k infekciám, akými sú hepatitída typu C alebo HIV. Pohodené striekačky sú na ulici nevítaní hostia a spôsobujú nevôľu okolitým obyvateľom. Riešenie však neleží v rukách polície – zatýkanie ľudí, ktorí užívajú drogy nepomôže znížiť počet užívateľov drog. Naopak, núti ich užívať drogy rizikovejším spôsobom a použité striekačky zahodiť čo najskôr po použití. Starý spôsob boja proti drogám nefunguje. Toto je kampaň pre nové riešenia – toto je Room for Change (Miesto pre zmenu).

Razmena pribora za injektiranje među korisnicima droga dovodi do širenja krvno prenosivih infekcija, kao što su Hepatitis C ili HIV. Bačene igle po ulicama izazivaju gađenje sugrađana. Rešenje ovog problema se ne nalazi u rukama policije – privođenje osoba koje koriste drogu ne smanjuje broj korisnika droga, već ih navodi da droge koriste na mnogo rizičniji način, kao i da što pre bace iskorišćen pribor za injektiranje. Tradicionalne metode borbe protiv droga nemaju efekta. Ova kampanja je namenjena pronalaženju novih rešenja – da se napravi mesto za promenu.

Sharing of injecting equipment by people who use drugs leads to infections, such as Hepatitis C or HIV. Discarded needles on the streets are not welcomed by people who live in the area. The solution does not lie in the hands of the police – arresting people who use drugs does not reduce the number of drug users, but pushes them to use in a more risky way, and to discard their needles as soon as possible. The old ways of fighting drug problems don’t work. This is a campaign to find new solutions – to provide room for change.