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Ethan Nadelmann: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform

Ethan Nadelmann on harm reduction and drug policy reform – conflict, coexistence, or harmony? Watch the video we filmed at the international harm reduction conference in Vilnius! Some people say harm reduction is a Troyan horse of drug legalization – others say harm reduction is about public health and not about politics. The Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) made a powerful speech at the International Harm Reduction Conference in Vilnius on this issue. (Many thanks to Arild Knutsen from the Association for Humane Drug Policies, Norway, for letting us use his footage too.) Posted by Péter Sárosi and István Gábor Takács

István Gábor Takács

István Gábor Takács is a human rights activist, videographer and trainer. He ran the Video Advocacy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union between 2007-2015. He worked as a needle exchange program counselor for 5 years. He is author of several articles on harm reduction and cameraman, editor, director and co-director of more than 700 online videos, among them longer documentaries, such as “Kostya Proletarsky” (2020), “Taking Back What’s Ours: An Oral History of the Movement of People who Use Drugs” (2020) ”A Day in the Life: The World of Humans Who Use Drugs” (2016), “Without Rights” (2009), “Without a Chance” (2014), “Room in the 8th District” (2014) and “The Invisible” (2011). Since 2016 he works at the Rights Reporter Foundation, where besides producing films, he is training activists in video advocacy.

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