A Visit to the Drug Consumption Room in Athens
Channel: Drugreporter
Date: 2022-11-23

At the international meeting of the Corelation European Harm Reduction Network, participants had a chance to visit the Drug Consumption room of OKANA, the largest service provider in Greece. The Drug consumption room started as a pilot project back in 2011, to reduce needle sharing and infections, to end overdoses and to reduce public nuisance caused  by the open drug scenes in Athens. The room could only operate for 9 months as a pilot project, before the prosecutor shut it down. Athenians had to wait ten years, to be able to finally open it again.
More information: https://drogriporter.hu/en/harm-reduction-in-athens-with-the-eye-of-an-outsider/