TAKING BACK WHAT’S OURS! – Episode 5. United States
Channel: Drugreporter
Date: 03/08/2020

An Oral History of the Movement of People who Use Drugs. Activists from the United States look back on the history of the movement of people who use drugs in the fifth episode of the documentary series produced by INPUD and Drugreporter.

In the country where the drug war was born, people who use drugs have fought for their dignity and human rights for over a decade. They achieved to have needle and syringe exchange legalised in many states, successfully campaigned for Hepatitis C treatment and they fought hard against the extremely harsh criminalisation around the US. In the US last year 70 thousand people died of overdose, and it was activists who, with the leadership of Dan Bigg, have made naloxone widely available. There is even an underground safer consumption facility somewhere in the United States, which saves lives at this very moment. In today's episode you can witness the oral history of the user's movement, told by Louise Vincent from the Urban Survivors Union (USU), from Hollis who for a long time worked at the San Francisco Drug Users Union, and from Robert Suarez, who is a long time activist at VOCAL-NY and USU.
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