{"id":6834,"date":"2008-05-15T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/questions-from-a-parallel-universe\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:35:44","slug":"questions-from-a-parallel-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/questions-from-a-parallel-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions from a Parallel Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to Mr. Costa from the parallel universe of harm reduction &#8211; watch our video!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HCLU was very glad that after we filmed Mr. Antonio-Maria Costa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drogriporter.hu\/en\/node\/929\">being embarrassed by Dr. Frederick Polak<\/a>, a Dutch psychiatrist at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, he accepted the invitation of the IHRA to address the international harm reduction conference. We prepared a welcome package to Mr. Costa: we offered people the possibility to ask him&nbsp;a question. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drogriporter.hu\/en\/node\/976\">Mr. Paul Hunt said<\/a> in his speech on Sunday, the UN drug control system seems to operate in a parallel universe: HCLU is committed to initiate a dialogue between these universes for the benefit of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><b>WATCH OUR VIDEO AND FIND OUT MORE!<\/b><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"mailto:antonio.maria.costa@unodc.org; tasz@tasz.hu\">Ask your own question from Mr. Costa!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DthosDjoigA&amp;hl=en\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed height=\"360\" quality=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DthosDjoigA&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/object><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><b><u>Our video on the speech of Mr. Costa at the harm reduction conference and the following Q&amp;A session is coming soon!<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><i><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Posted by P\u00e9ter Sarosi<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to Mr. Costa from the parallel universe of harm reduction &#8211; 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