Watch three short videos produced by Drug User News at Drugreporter, about the state of drug policy and harm reduction in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.<\/p>\n
To be honest, when we were planning this trip, we certainly did not expect to find that the lives of communities in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia would be so different. In more than a week, we covered almost 2,000 kilometers, visited eight cities, and in most of them, met people working in harm reduction, policy-makers, and people who use drugs. We talked with them about the culture of drug use and about drug prices, about national legislation and funding for harm reduction programs, about the attitude of civil society to the issue of drug use, and about living on 70 euro per month. We tried to include in the Baltic Trip trilogy all the materials we prepared during our voyage, and of course apart from the serious discussions, we also found some time to appreciate the beautiful sights in those countries.<\/p>\n
The videos are based on the stories of three heroes, people who feel the results of the decisions made by public officials and at the UNGASS meetings first-hand. For them, drug policy is not just words; it is the law of their life, their rules of survival.<\/p>\n
The first video is about Lithuania.<\/strong> (You can turn on English subtitles by clicking on the CC button at the right bottom of the video)<\/p>\n