Eberhard Schatz is the head of an Amsterdam-based harm reduction NGO, AMOC, which operates a drop-in and consumption room for injecting drug users with foreign nationality.
According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, consumption rooms can succesfully reduce drug related harms, especially drug overdoses and HIV infections. He is also a coordinator of a European Commission funded international network,
the CorrelationHe was interviewed by our activists at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.
"No country for civil society - What strategies can human rights organizations follow under increasingly authoritarian regimes?" is the title of the international conference organized by INCLO on 30 May that, thanks to HCLU, you can follow live online.
An HCLU film about the dream
of a drug-free Sweden:
is Swedish drug policy really
as succesful as its allies claim?
Stijn is the head of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), more info: www.inpud.org