Drugreporter’s film outlines Switzerland’s successful drug policy
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How does the use of new psychoactive substances, such as “herbal” or “crystal”, affect the Hungarian countryside and cities in 2024? How does Hungarian society treat the users of these drugs? Drug users, ex-dealers, the mayor, helpers and experts answer these questions in a new documentary by Drugreporter.
Tony Duffin is the CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project. Established in 1982, Ana Liffey was Ireland’s first service founded on the principles of Harm Reduction. Tony, who has spent decades at the front line of Irelands burgeoning drug problem, has long advocated for progressive and evidence-informed responses to drugs use. Here Tony provides Drug Reporter with a brief reflection on Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use. In June 2023, Drugreporter visited Dublin where they interviewed key experts about Ireland’s drug policy developments. You can find a link to the film below!
We proudly present our movie featuring interviews with key researchers from the forefront of psychedelic science, filmed at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
This short video summarises the activities of the “LET ME” Erasmus+ project.
The animated documentary is based on the true story of Kostya Proletarsky, a drug user and HIV activist who died as a result of mistreatment and torture at a Russian prison. The animation features original audio interviews with Kostya and his mother Irina, and aims to commemorate Kostya and many others who have not survived prisons around the world.
Metzineres provides a safe haven for womxn who use drugs who are also surviving violence in Barcelona. They are not passive victims to be rescued – we can learn a lot from them about community empowerment. Watch our new video produced together with INPUD!
This unique program supports people who use drugs and sex workers who live or work on the streets during the COVID-19 pandemic in Budapest. One of their main goals is to help people get into Hepatitis C treatment. Watch our video and find out how!
Who are peers? Why is the involvement of peers crucial in service provision to people who use drugs and are in need? This short movie documents a study visit to Amsterdam and Antwerp, two cities with a long history of peer involvement.
The Rights Reporter Foundation (Drugreporter) and the International Network of People who use Drugs (INPUD) produced this documentary film series that aims to document how the movement of people who use drugs have formed around the world, how they maintain momentum and mobilise, and how they undertake their work and show resilience in a context of criminalisation, marginalisation and oppression. This is the main summary page of all the 10 episodes.
In the final episode of our documentary series on the history of the rights movement of people who use drugs, we introduce activists from the UK and from the International Network of People Who Use Drugs.
In today’s episode of the oral history of the movement of people who use drugs, we travel to three Eastern-European countries, where activists effectively fight very restrictive drug policies.
In this episode of the oral history of the movement of people who use drugs, we introduce three countries with new and emerging user movements: Afghanistan, Tanzania and Mexico.
Despite criminalisation, torturous forced labour camps, capital punishment and state sanctioned murder of people who use drugs, the movement of people who use drugs in Asia remains strong and resilient. Watch the new episode of our series telling the oral history of the movement of people who use drugs in Asian countries!
In this episode of the oral history of the movement of people who use drugs, we learn about the successes and challenges in Australia, from four veterans of the user movement.
Activists from the United States look back on the history of the movement of people who use drugs in the fifth episode of the documentary series produced by INPUD and Drugreporter.
Drugreporter and INPUD present the fourth episode of an oral history of the movement of people who use drugs. This time we discover the vibrant user movement in South Africa.
Drugreporter and INPUD present the third instalment of an oral history of the movement of people who use drugs. This episode is about the achievement of drug user groups in Germany, Denmark, and Norway.
Drugreporter and INPUD present the second episode of an oral history of the movement of people who use drugs. The second chapter is about Canada, featuring Ann Livingston, Zoë Dodd and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) team.
Drugreporter and INPUD presents the first episode of a 10 chapter long series documenting how people who use drugs around the world have organised and formed collectives and unions to protect and defend the health and human rights of their community. The first episode uncovers he history of the movement in the Netherlands, and how it inspired activists in Belgium and France.
Chedrik Charvet of the Regenboog Groep explains in detail the mission and the successes of drug consumption rooms.
‘Nonexistent? We Exist!’ is a documentary film about the communities of people living with HIV in Russia. It tells the story of how the members of the most vulnerable communities affected by the HIV epidemic, such as drug users, sex workers, and LGBTQ people, struggle for survival and dignity in a hostile cultural and political environment.
This film – produced by the Rights Reporter Foundation, supported by AFEW International – features activists and civil society organisations who are being increasingly targeted by repressive governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The Drugreporter video crew filmed the work of the NGO Juventas (Montenegro) in 2017. The film was used since that in the NGO’s campaign. Watch it and read about the background story! Support, Don’t Punish! “Sparkle in the Dark – Harm Reduction in Mont
Our new film features the story of Netti, her son Sam, and their experience with services for pregnant women who use drugs in Berlin. Netti had a difficult life. Living as a sex worker who used drugs in Berlin she was exposed to many risks, includ
In cooperation with Dialogs, a Latvian harm reduction NGO, we have produced a movie about drug policies in Latvia – mainly for a Latvian audience, to educate them about why people who use drugs need support and not punishment. Vjaceslav was once an act
The Drugreporter video team helped Coalition I Can Live, a Lithuanian drug policy reform NGO to launch a media campaign for the decriminalisation of drug use. Watch the movie we produced about drug policies in Lithuania – and read this interview with L
How does the war on drugs affect women? Is it really so different from how it affects men? Our knowledge was very limited before we interviewed the participants of an international workshop in Budapest. Please watch our video report and read our articl
Our movie gives you an overview of the crisis of harm reduction programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where harm reducers don’t receive support from the government but they keep doing their work and saving lives. When we visited the drop-in centre
We are glad to publish our documentary movie featuring one day in the life of people who use drugs from seven cities around the world! We had the idea for a long time to produce a movie similar to Jim Jarmusch’s “Night on Earth,” but
El documental nos lleva a través un día en la vida de siete personas, de siete ciudades, en siete países distintos del mundo; desde las primeras horas de la mañana hasta el anochecer. Todos tienen algo en común, todos ellos usan alguna droga.
The film takes us through one day in the life of eight people, from seven cities, in seven different countries of the world, from morning until night. They all have something in common – all of them use drugs.
Der Film führt uns durch einen Tag im Leben von acht Menschen aus sieben Städten in sieben verschiedenen Ländern der Welt, vom Morgen bis in die Nacht. Sie alle haben etwas gemeinsam: sie alle gebrauchen Drogen, aber sie definieren sich nicht darüber.
Фильм приглашает нас совершить путешествие в один день из жизни восьми человек, из семи городов семи стран мира, с утра и до поздней ночи. Все эти люди имеют нечто общее – они употребляют наркотики. Но мы не будем заострять на этом внимание.
We present three videos about what the world can learn from harm reduction in Australia. When we visited Australia to attend the International AIDS Conference last year, we created a lot of footage we couldn’t edit immediately because of other work. Th
PKNI and Drugreporter launch their new documentary film in 4 cities across Indonesia ahead of World AIDS Day 2015. Watch and share the film to end the war on drugs in Indonesia! In early 2015, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, st
Our video about the adventures of the drug consumption room in Athens. Made for the Room for Change and Support Don’t Punish Campaigns.
In 1976, the Netherlands separated the cannabis market from the market in other illicit drugs, and allowed coffee shops to sell small amounts of cannabis to adults in a controlled environment. Our new movie, supplementing the report of the Open Society
Watch our video interview with the man who discovered Mephedrone, the drug also known as Meow-Meow! Mephedrone (or as chemists call it, 4-methylmethcathinone) is a stimulant drug, first synthetised in 1929, but which did not become known to the wider p
Read a report about our campaign for opening supervised injection sites in Budapest – and watch our campaign movie with English subtitles! International organisations invited NGOs to participate in the 2014 Global Day of Action on June 26, to raise awa
Serbia is not eligible for any more money from the Global Fund – harm reduction programs are in danger. Our movie gives you a glimpse of the desperate situation of Roma injecting drug users in Belgrade, help us to share the message! Serbia is a country
Our film gives you an insight on how the state of Colorado regulates the recreational use of cannabis The International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver provided us an excellent opportunity to make a film about the new marijuana regulation
Harm-reduction activists take to the streets of Bucharest to warn the authorities of alarming public health risks While on treatment, I could give birth to a healthy baby and raise it properly for six years, stay away from trouble, get a job and be hea
We visited a street outreach program of ARAS, an NGO fighting HIV among the most vulnerable people of Romania
Our latest movie provides an insight to the war on drugs in Mexico
Please watch and share the latest of our Count the Costs campaign movie serials! Those countries where there is little economic infrastructure and the political system is instable are becoming havens for drug traffickers. For many decades, the United N
InSite is an injecting site – and so much more. Please watch our movie and learn why the Canadian government should not shut it down! Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about InSite, the only legally-operat
Drugreporter proudly presents the second part of HCLU’s documentary on Portugal’s reformist drug policy approach. In this documentary we give you an insight into the everyday work of an NGO working with vulnerable people, such as people who use dr
Watch our new movie on the new approach to drug policy in the state of Washington, where people voted yes to tax and regulate marijuana There’s a new wind blowing through the very home of marijuana prohibition: not only have dozens of states legalised
Watch the second EDPI film from Bulgaria about the pioneering harm reduction work done by our partner, Initiative for Health Foundation The second video advocacy film from Bulgaria is dedicated to an NGO struggling with the elements amongst deteriorati
The government plans to introduce harsher penalties against drug offenders in Bulgaria – watch our movie and sign the petition! In our European Drug Policy Initiative (EDPI) we help NGOs to promote evidence-informed services and interventions in the fi
A new report of the OSF and a film of the HCLU shows a positive example on how science could contribute to progressive drug policies The Open Society Foundation published a report on drug policies in the Czech Republic. The report shows how visionary p
One of the worst negative consequences of the global war on drugs is stigma – watch our movie and count the costs with us! In 2011, on the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention, NGOs joined together in a campaign to count the costs of the global wa
Watch our movie on the Andrey Rylkov Foundation and support their fight for survival! The HCLU visited Moscow last year and produced a movie to promote the work of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, the only NGO that provides clean needles for drug users in
Watch and share our movie to raise awareness on the human rights consequences of the global war on drugs! Read more >> The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), together with Transform Drug Policy Foundation, were among the NGOs launching the C
Our new movie shows how harm reduction breaks taboos and moves drug policy in a good direction in Lebanon! When we speak about injecting drug use and HIV, we rarely pay any attention to the Middle-East. But if you think that injecting drug use is not p
Do you want to know how you can prevent overdose deaths and infections among drug users in your country? Watch the new movie of the HCLU and learn from the Danish! Denmark has one of the highest overdose death rates in the European Union. Contrary to c
Welcome to the future of US marijuana regulation – please watch and share HCLU’s new movie! The filming crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) traveled to California and attended the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in LA to find
Watch and share the HCLU’s movie on drug user organization in the United States! This movie was filmed by the HCLU at the 8th National Harm Reduction Conference in Austin, Texas – we thank the Harm Reduction Coalition for the invitation and for organiz
What does harm reduction mean to harm reduction activists in the US? How do they see the future of harm reduction? Watch the HCLU’s new movie and find it out! https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4yqsYP0yFY Although most decision makers and professionals ack
After 10 years of zero-tolerance, the Polish Parliament has decided to reform the drug law – watch our movie and learn more! This movie was produced by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) in cooperation with the Polish Drug Policy Network, our p
Drugreporter’s film outlines Switzerland’s successful drug policy In the late 1980s, Switzerland witnessed a significant increase in the use of injected drugs and was hit hard by the harms associated with it, such as increased HIV infection and rising
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Drugreporter’s film outlines Switzerland’s successful drug policy
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