Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)

Title

Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)

Author/Creator

Narcotic City Research Team with zweischritte.berlin 2022

Date Created

2021

Temporal Coverage (Time Period)

1971 – 2022

Abstract

Interview with Gemma Blok about 50 Years of activism for harm reduction in Amsterdam - from the Junkie Union to drug testing kits. October 2021 - Amsterdam.

Description

"August de Loor started his work on drugs and drug use in the early 1970’s. He was one of the co-founders of the ‘junkie union’ Medical Service Heroine Users (MDHG), the first interest group in the Netherlands by and for hard drugs addicts. Instead of referring heroin users, the MDHG was of the opinion that primary care should be the main focus. “We weren’t going to lock up junkies in prisons or distant clinics, but provide care in the city where they were taken seriously,” states August de Loor in a recent interview with Dutch newspaper Het Parool. (...) August started the Safe House Campaign in the nineties and became a founder of the test system for drugs at parties and festivals that is still used today.

Several initiatives originally launched by August de Loor are still part of Amsterdam’s drug prevention policy!

(source: https://www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/news/drug-consultant-august-de-loor-gets-medal/)

Subject

harm reduction
drug checking

Spatial Coverage (Place)

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Type

video

Format/size

1:16:15

Source

Narcotic City Project

Language

English

Rights Holder

Narcotic City Project

Rights

Narcotic City Project

Narcotic Archive Item-ID

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