the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a Lisbon-based institute that aims to provide reliable information on drugs. It has a central role in evidence-based decision making – even if decision makers often ignore the evidence EMCDDA provides. We interviewed EMCDDA’s new director, Alexis Goodseel, who explained what are the new trends in the drug market in Europe and how his agency is trying to adapt to the new economic and political environment. Please read and share this interivew! 

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. This summer, we had some time to work on this footage, and produced three videos highlighting different aspects of harm reduction in Australia. We do not only recommend to watch these videos to those who are interested in Australian drug policy – but to everybody who would like to learn about harm reduction in general! 

Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis in Macedonia

In February 2016, Macedonia legalised medicinal cannabis but the law is far from ideal. Drugreporter’s Macedonian partner, Healthy Options Project Skopje – HOPS – carried out an analysis of the law. Read their key remarks and recommendations presented by Vlatko Dekov.

The Baltic Trip Trilogy

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.

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Dose of Science: The probability and predictors of substance abuse
Only a fraction of drug users will ever translate from drug use to drug dependence, yet substance abuse is a great burden, both on the individual and society. Unfortunately, our thinking about addiction is much more shaped by political ideologies than by scientific facts. Addiction is often portrayed as a molecular disease which the individual cannot control by his actions, while conservative narratives often depict it as merely the consequence of an individual’s poor decisions. Neither of these simplistic views covers the whole picture; addiction is a complex phenomenon which has biological, psychological and social components.

How to Make Good Drug Policy Instead of Killing Your People? 
Recommendations to the President of the Philippines about how to address drug problems in a meaningful way – or a recepie to improve drug policy.  

Largest Drug Consumption Room of the World Opens in Copenhagen
Please watch a photo gallery from the world’s largest drug consumption room that was opened yesterday in Copenhagen! 

Stop the Killings in the Philippines!
President Duterte has given law enforcement agents licence, with impunity, to kill hundreds of drug suspects in the Philippines. This clearly breaches human rights conventions, as well as the drug control principles adopted by member states at the UNGASS on drugs in April. The international community must stand up and give teeth to its own laws and conventions!

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Youth Demonstration and Art Installation organised by the Students for Sensible Drug Policy in New York (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, E 47th St, New York, NY 10017 on the 18th of April, from 3:30 to 6 PM). 

Please help us and the artists to distribute these posters widely! If you would like to print and exhibit these posters, please email us at rightsreporter(at)rightsreporter.net! 

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