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“Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this issue.”
– Walter Cronkite
”Ibogaine – rite of passage” –
En ganske aldeles glimrende oplysningsdokumentarfilm omkring den afrikanske rodbarkplante ”Ibogaine” der i syntetiseret form anvendes ceremonielt og som rituelt rusmiddel ved en slags konfirmationsritual på tærsklen til voksenlivet i Afrika og som terapeutisk virkemiddel ved alternativ stoffri behandling i den vestlige verden, hvor virkestoffet i Ibogaine har vist sig at være i stand til at slette kroppens erindring om opiatafhængighed og vores erfaring viser endvidere, at årtiers tobakshunger, som en slags sidegevinst, også kan forsvinde.
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Sept. 1, 2003
The drug Naloxone is used to reverse heroin overdoses. It’s been used by paramedics and emergency rooms for several years. And it is also being distributed directly to drug addicts by the several agencies, including the Chicago Recovery Alliance. Independent producer Dan Collison spent an evening on the streets of Chicago with the organization’s health workers discovering how Naxolone works.
Desværre kun på engelsk, men meget instruktiv..
Overdose prevention – Going Over –
Recovery position and first aid – Dialling 911 – OD information
Four overdose histories told by the people who were there –
Video and soundtrack
http://www.goingover.org.uk/odinfo/info.html
Fighting Columbias Cartels in the 80’ies.
This excerpt chronicles the lockhold Colombian drug cartels had on their society and government, and the terror unleashed by the cartels when they decided to fight U.S. and Colombian plans to extradict the kingpins. Includes interviews with Medellin’s Ochoa brothers and Carlos Toro.
Follow the Money a Cautionary Story
Seizing drug traffickers’ money is a key strategy in the war on drugs. But narco dollars increasingly have become intermingled in legitimate businesses through money laundering schemes like the black market peso-dollar exchange. So tracking drug money can catch the wrong people–as this report shows.
The Narco-Juniors:
TheArellano-Felix Organization (AFO) is North America’s most violent drug trafficking cartel. Based out of Tijuana, Mexico, for over a decade they’ve shipped tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine into the U.S. Annual revenues are into the hundreds of millions of dollars says the FBI.
AFO’s innovative strategy is befriending and recruiting ‘juniors’-young, educated men of middle-and upper-class families living on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. AFO uses them as drug runners and hit men. ‘Juniors’ get involved with the cartel not necessarily to become wealthy but for “la fama”–the fame of the gangster life. This is the story of what happened to one of these young men, told by his family and a fellow ‘junior.’
Gratis heroin til danska heroinister, Video af SVT Rapport
Publiceret den 14.6.2010.
INPUD – International Network of People who Use Drugs
sarosip, September 17, 2010
http://drogriporter.hu/en/inpud
This movie is about a global network that aims to challenge the dogma that drug users are worthless
“We are people from around the world who use drugs. We are people who have been marginalized and discriminated against; we have been killed, harmed unnecessarily, put in jail, depicted as evil, and stereotyped as dangerous and disposable . Now it is time to raise our voices as citizens, establish our rights and reclaim the right to be our own spokespersons striving for self-representation and self-empowerment…”
This is the preamble of the Vancouver Declaration, the manifesto of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), a global network that seeks to represent the communities of people who use drugs in international agencies and aims to defend their human rights. This movie is about them.
It is always hard to organize the communities of peope who are stigmatized and marginalized – and there are few other groups in our society that are more stigmatized than people who use drugs. Many people can accept organizations that represent ex-drug users – but an organization that represents current drug users gives them the creeps. For them the idea to organize drug users is the same as to promote drug use per se. A major challenge for all peer-driven user groups is to convince society that their work is not about drugs but about people – people who are not the problem but the solution to the problem.
Another – sometimes even bigger – challenge is to convince the people who use drugs themselves to stand up for their own rights, to build a movement from people whose self-esteem is systematically destroyed by their environment. Drug users live in a hostile world: the simple possession of drugs for personal use is a crime in itself in most countries, the media is full of stories demonizing drug users and many “intelligent” people proudly voice their opinion that they are worth nothing.
The history of drug user activism goes back to the seventies when the first user organizations were established in The Netherlands, faced by blood born infections such as Hepatitis B and C. Today we find many peer-led groups of people who use drugs from Bangkok to London, from Moscow to Vancouver – communities that often fight for their sole survival in the face of deadly diseases, overdoses, torture, organized killings and incaceration.
There are more and more government officials, treatment providers and law enforcement agents who recognize the groundbreaking significance of engaging in a dialogue with people who use drugs. To involve drug users is not only a charitable and humanitarian act but contributes to the improvement of international and national drug policies.
INPUD is the light in the darkness for user activists from all over the world: it gives them hope that change is possible. INPUD is a guarantee that the voice of people who use drugs will not be ignored at international forums that aim to “tackle the drug problem” and makes sure that the slogan of the Vancouver Declaration – “nothing about us without us” – is respected in decision-making processes.
The HCLU is a proud supported and ally of INPUD – in 2009 we even co-organized a protest at the Vienna International Center to stop the global drug war. We hope our new movie will convince You to show your support to their case!
Heroin treatment on the NHS – Video Part 1 + 2 + 3
Dr Clive Froggatt, Margaret Thatcher’s advisor on NHS reform and a former secret heroin addict, was forced to resign from his advisory role when he was discovered faking prescriptions to feed his habit.
He argues, from a very personal perspective, that the Government must prescribe heroin if it is to stand any chance of beating the drugs problem that costs this country billions of pounds every year.
3 videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-FzlHgrm8k –
Further reading on alternatives to the failed war on drugs can be found at the Transform Drug Policy
Transform Drug Policy Foundation website – http://tdpf.org.uk/