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Symposium DCRs 2025 - Drug Consumption Rooms, a Pillar of Harm Reduction and Human Rights : Sharing Experiences and Challenges of Drug Public Policy
For almost 40 years, the Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) have been providing effective solutions in terms of harm reduction, human rights and public health.
Local actors, elected representatives and citizens make the opening of new DCRs worldwide possible through their commitment. Despite the many positive evaluations, the subject remains sensitive in the public debate.
This is why the City of Strasbourg, the Council of Europe's Pompidou Group and the Ithaque association are pleased to invite you to the fourth international symposium on drug consumption rooms, to be held on 18 and 19 June 2025 in the Hemicycle of the Council of Europe.
This conference continues the strong momentum started in 2019, bringing together more than 30 countries and 50 different cities at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Its aim is to promote the model of DCRs and to harmonize international policies around human rights and harm reduction. It offers the opportunity to share the diversity of experiences, the different legal frameworks and, their evolutions, and to put innovative practices into perspective.
Institutional actors and associations in the field, peoples who use drugs, local, national and international political leaders are all invited to attend and will be able to take the floor.
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Symposium DCRs 2023 - Drug consumption rooms around the world: Working together to provide a local response
A growing number of cities, particularly in Europe and North America, are supporting, experimenting with or planning the development of a drug consumption room: a pragmatic response to the health and social damage associated with the use of legal and illegal psychotropic substances. However, the urgent need to implement and strengthen innovative and courageous policies is becoming more and more apparent every day, especially with Covid19, which has made the most vulnerable more vulnerable.
The City of Strasbourg, the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, the Ithaque association and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), with the support of the Inter-ministerial Mission for the Fight against Drugs and Addictive Behaviours (MILDECA), the Regional Health Agency of the Grand Est (ARS), the European Forum for Urban Safety (Efus) and Correlation Network, are pleased to invite you to the third symposium on drug consumption rooms, which will be held on : 4 and 5 May 2023 at the Council of Europe.
This conference continues the strong momentum started in 2019 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, renewed in 2021 at the Council of Europe, bringing together nearly 600 people from 50 cities and 33 different countries. Its aim is to promote the model of drug consumption rooms and to harmonize French and European policies on risk and harm reduction. It offers the opportunity to share a diversity of experiences, to deal with different legal frameworks and their evolutions, to put innovations into perspective and to encourage collaborative networks as close as possible to the territories that require it.
The event will be attended by institutional actors and associations in the field, managers of structures, and local, national and European political leaders, who will be able to take the floor.
The event will be attended by institutional actors and associations in the field, managers of structures, and local, national and European political leaders, who will be able to take the floor.
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