As of mid-January, more than 50 000 people had already participated in the European Web Survey on Drugs, a pilot project designed to improve understanding of patterns of drug use at European level. The survey, run with a number of Reitox national focal points, collects information from different groups of drug users, on topics currently not covered by routine data collection. The project, which started with a first wave of six countries in 2016, entered its second phase in late 2017 with an additional nine countries running the survey.
What About and Who (WAAW) made this film about the organisations that really influenced other activists in the drug user movement.. Set in Spain (english substitles) the video talks historically and passionately about a number of integral organisations such as Metamorfosis, Platforma Drogologica,
The city of Paris has opened its first drug consumption room (DCR) last year, after a long political struggle. We interviewed Charlotte Mévil-Blanche, a volunteer at the Gaia-Paris DCR about their plans.
“People are afraid of the Police. If you go to protests... you are marked and whenever they see you, they might stop you, control you." This is just one of the obstacles restraining drug user activism in Macedonia. An article by Vlatko Dekov on the problems with drug user organising in Macedonia, first printed in Drogriporter, in January 2017. Thanks to Vlatko and Drogriporter for credited reprinting here. For the article and many other excellent pieces on drug user organising and related issues, don't miss their website. Drogriporter is a leading source of drug news and views from the drug using / activist / health professional communities, they write and record all over the globe and are a 'must subscribe' website for anyone in the drugs field.
