By Peter Sarosi | Executive Director
The research with psychedelic drugs is labelled as an obscure hippy obsession by many people - they are wrong. It can change our understanding of the human mind: it helps us to model its working mechanisms. The Drugreporter video advocacy team attended a conference on psychedelic research in Amsterdam - we were asked by the organisers to produce a short video summarising the discussions there. Please click here and watch our video!
This year we launched new blogs - the DUnews blog with two Russian speaking reporters who are producing high quality movies about harm reduction and drug policies in the Eastern-European and Central-Asian region, and the Dose of Science blog, with reviews of the science on drugs and people who use drugs.
Several NGOs were excluded from the High Level Meeting on AIDS this year in New York. But this is not an isolated incident. Civil society is under attack in many countries - and we need to fight back. Please read a thought-provoking article on this issue on Drugreporter!
We are currently working on a feature documentary that was filmed in 7 cities of the world and aims to contrast the different local realities of the global war on drugs: how policies, access to services and public attitudes affect the lives of individual drug users in these places? The the trailer of movie, which is being produced in coproduction with the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, was screened at the Durban AIDS conference this July. The full movie will be premiered soon!
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