In Bergen, on Norway’s rainy western coast, Huset Bergen — a three-storey harm reduction centre — is run entirely by people with lived and living experience of drug use. Drugreporter joined Arild Knutsen from the Association for Humane Drug Policy to explore this bold model and found something striking: not resistance, but broad community support — from neighbours to bankers and politicians. Watch our new documentary on the future of peer-led drug services.
Drugreporter Documentaries
We have been producing documentary films about drug policy reform and harm reduction advocacy since 2007.
Visiting The Thistle: The UK’s First Legal Safer Drug Consumption Room in Glasgow
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.
Drugreporter Visits: ETC Hospitality, One of Colorado’s First Psilocybin Healing Centers
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.
Inside Vienna’s Integrated Harm Reduction Hub: Suchthilfe Wien
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.
STOP THE DEATHS – Uniting Against Preventable Overdoses in Scotland
Scotland continues to face some of the highest drug-related death rates in Europe. The Scottish Drugs Forum Stop the Deaths conference in Glasgow brings together people who have lived this reality from every angle — families, frontline workers, people with lived and living experience, policymakers, and activists — to confront the scale of the emergency and demand meaningful change. Watch Drugreporter’s short documentary, filmed at this landmark event!
Drugreporter Visits CheckIt! – Vienna’s Pioneering Drug Checking Service
A harm reduction service that empowers young people to make healthy decisions and reduce the risks of drug use – watch Drugreporter’s new video on CheckIt!
The Psychedelic Renaissance is Alive and Well
It was an absolute honour to attend and film the world’s largest gathering of the psychedelic science community: Psychedelic Science 2025 in Denver, Colorado. We are grateful to the many outstanding scientists, healers, and activists who shared their wisdom with us — Watch our videos to learn more!
COSS MARTE: From Convict to Cannabis CEO in New York
Watch Drugreporter’s new video about Coss Marte, a former convict who, thanks to New York State’s Social Equity Program, now runs three cannabis retail shops and a gym where he employs other formerly incarcerated individuals.
Visiting the Outstanding New HIV Testing Site of FES in Warsaw, Poland
The Foundation for Social Education (FES) has opened a new voluntary counseling and testing site at a women’s health center in the heart of Warsaw. As part of the CORE EU project, we had the opportunity to visit the site and interview their CEO, Magdalena Ankiersztejn-Bartczak, about the services they provide.
AT GAT PORTUGAL: Peer Work Makes Super Services!
In the framework of the CORE EU project, we filmed at two community-based centers run by GAT Portugal in Lisbon. They are excellent examples of building effective HIV responses on peer work! Check it out!
