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Magazine of the Belangenvereniging Druggebruikers MDHG

ARTICLES SPUIT 11 SUMMER '24

“Listen more to users”

“Listen more to users”

"When creating drug policy, the voice of drug users should be listened to more," said Gemma Blok, professor of the history of mental health and culture, at the National Drug Congress 2024. “Previously, the Netherlands had a pioneering role, but we are now being...

Life and death

Life and death

After my first week at the MDHG, I had already accumulated more so-called 'office stories' than in many other jobs combined. After all, street life is full of life, and if 'remarkable' wasn't such a dull description, I would say it's filled with remarkable characters....

Beauty for Ashes

Beauty for Ashes

Upon Mayor Femke Halsema’s initiative, the Dealing with Drugs conference was held earlier this year to discuss not whether but how drugs like cocaine could be legalized. MDHG member Jessica was one of the speakers, passionately advocating for legal base-cocaine...

Older users require new rules

Older users require new rules

The success of medical heroin provision is no longer up for debate. Since its introduction in 2007, the provision has been so successful that participants are aging much more than anticipated, a development which nobody had prepared for. While other geriatric patients...

Skaeve Huse

Skaeve Huse

In 2007, five living containers were placed in a remote location in the Houthavens. These were called “Skaeve huse”, inspired by the Danish concept “Skæve huse til skæve existense”: peculiar houses for people with peculiar lives. According to implementers and...

Dutch Candy

Dutch Candy

With Dutch Candy, Adam Fierman and photographer Peter Andrew Lusztyk created a beautiful coffee table book featuring photos of 42 different ecstasy pills. The American expat Fierman, residing in the Netherlands, became fascinated by the logos on the pills, as well as...

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