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- The house dealer experiment at Hippo
In the North of the Netherlands, a “house dealer” experiment was initiated in the late 1970s at youth centre Hippopotamus Unlimited (Hippo).
1970 – 1979The NetherlandsTemporal Coverage: 1970/1979 (2020s,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1970s,1970s,) Read Story -
Amsterdam · in English
Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)-- »Interview with August de Loor (Stichting Adviesburo Drugs, Amsterdam)«
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.
(Type: video)
(Format: 1:16:15)
Subjects: harm reduction drug checking ,
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Netherlands · in Dutch
Interview with Eric Krabbenbosch-- »Interview with Eric Krabbenbosch«
In this video, Amsterdam comic artist Eric Krabbenbosch talks with Gemma Blok about his work, and his long-time use of heroin and other drugs.
(Type: video)
(Format: 11:22 min)
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Poster - Hard drugs is still no go!-- »Poster - Hard drugs is still no go!«
Poster - Hard drugs is still no go!
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A living statue?-- »A living statue?«
Text in the comic: Amsterdam, 1980s. At that time, heroin was at its strongest. Regularly you came across a user who seemed to be sleeping standing up. We weren't really surprised by that....Back then, 'confused behaviour' was still very common. (text balloon) "Living statue? Maybe, but one that portrays itself, I think."
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German heroin users in Amsterdam, 1973-- »German heroin users in Amsterdam, 1973«
Translation of the text in the comic: 1973. German drug tourists had discovered heroin in Amsterdam. Some thought that everything was possible here. In a squat in the Keizersstraat, 10 o' clock in the evening... "Maybe that German guy will come over for a few grams." At 2 a.m.... the doorbell was broken. "He da oben! Hier ist der Gustav. Habt ihr noch H?" "Fck. There you will have it." "Shit! Shit! The fool. I had told him to be a bit careful and especially not to scream like that anymore! Fck my dope!" In opposition to the metro plans, many demolition buildings in the Nieuwmarktbuurt had been squatted. (Junkies weren’t really popular in the squatting movement). By the way; most junkies were also quite fond of piece and quiet….
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Berlin · in German
Berliner Tinke Magazin (first issue, 1992)-- »Berliner Tinke Magazin (first issue, 1992)«
Named after a heroin precursor in the German drug scene of the early 1970s, the “Berliner Tinke magazine was a German journal made “by and for people who use drugs”.
(Type: journal)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: heroin Berlin,
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Chinese "white heroin", with the Elephant label - Amsterdam 1972-- »Chinese "white heroin", with the Elephant label - Amsterdam 1972«
Drawing relating to the availability of high quality white (or grey) heroin, that was for sale in Amterdam in 1972. It was wrapped in foil with the depicted Elephant label on it. The heroin gave off a strong, acid smell. Users did not need to mix it with citric acid before shooting up.
- The Methadone Emergency Program
In 1981 the Rotterdam Junkie Union organized a guerilla methadone program. The junkies wanted to offer an emergency provision of this synthetic opiate to the large number of destitute heroin users in the streets, who often suffered acute withdrawal symptoms when they did not have the means to buy heroin. In their report, published in 1983, they explained their efforts in detail.
1981 – 1982RotterdamTemporal Coverage: 1981/1982 (1981,1982,1980s,1980s,) Read Story - Early drug scenes in Switzerland: places and practices
Not only for the Swiss counterculture were certain places in the cities of central importance. Here one could buy drugs and consume and philosophize together. In Basel, people sat on the wall at Barfüsserplatz.
1965 – 1975SwitzerlandTemporal Coverage: 1965/1975 (2020s,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1960s,1970s,) Read Story - The Rotterdam Junkie Union
The Rotterdam Junkie Union was the first user-created interest group for drug users. It was formed in 1980. In the 1980s the union organized multiple protests, provided harm reduction measures, and spoke out against forced treatment for drug users. The union received subsidy from the city of Rotterdam and had close ties to Rotterdam St. Paul’s Church.
1970 – 1996RotterdamTemporal Coverage: 1970/1996 (2020s,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1980s,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1970s,1990s,) Read Story -
Methadonbus-- »Methadonbus«
Art work on the mobile methadone clinic ('methadone bus") as a typically Dutch phenomenon.
(Format: 100 - 200 cm)
Subjects: Methadone maintenance ,
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Amsterdam · in Dutch
'Fucking Hell". The Story of Truus Oldenburg-- »'Fucking Hell". The Story of Truus Oldenburg«
Movie about Truus Oldenburg.
(Type: movie)
(Format: 16 min)
Subjects: heroin ,
- Narcotic Struggles: Hash Rebels and the Fight for Alternative Spaces in West Berlin
In the mid-1960s, West Berlin saw the first glimpses of an emerging public drug scene, which would become a widespread phenomenon in the decades to come.
1964 – 1969West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1964/1969 (2020s,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1960s,1960s,) Read Story -
Zurich · in German
EVENT CALENDARde »VERANSTALTUNGS-KALENDER«
The last entry of the first calendar of events of the Wohlgroth factory occupied on 18.5.1991 reads: "How do we deal with heroin/cocaine/FreeBase etc.?"
(Type: packing paper)
(Format: ca. 180 x 80 cm)
Subjects: drug consumption, squats,
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Zurich · in German
KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG. ALLGEMEINE MOBILMACHUNG DER ANTI-H-DEALER-- »KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG. ALLGEMEINE MOBILMACHUNG DER ANTI-H-DEALER«
The Zurich Autonomous Youth Centre (AJZ) opposes the increasing trade in hashish and heroin. Traffickers should be thrown out and the "poison" thrown away.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: drug trafficking, autonomous youth centre, 80s movement, drug consumption, heroin, hashish,
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Zurich · in German
STATEMENT ON THE CITY'S DRUG POLICYde »STELLUNGSNAHME ZUR STADTRAETLICHEN DROGENPOLITIK«
In its announcement, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Platzspitz points out that Zurich has a "pull" on the rest of Switzerland and nearby countries not because of the distribution of meals or because of the " Filterli tables" (tables where injecting paraphernalia was exchanged for the residual heroin left in the filters) on the Platzspitz, but because of being a financial/economic and cultural centre. The narcotics officers should therefore be active in the banking district rather than on the Platzspitz.
(Type: Press communiqué)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: self help, self organisation, harm reduction, Swiss banks, police,
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2 Files Zurich · in German
Press communiqué of the Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zuerich on the 10 basic principles of drug policy in Zurichde »Pressecommuniqué der Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zuerich zu den 10 drogenpolitischen Grundsaetzen von Zuerich«
In its statement, the Fachgruppe Gassennahe Institutionen der Stadt Zürich calls on the authorities to stop the repressive action against the "Filterli-Tische" (tables where injecting paraphernalia were exchanged for the residual heroin left in the filters) and to provide sufficient consumption rooms, decentralised syringe distribution points as well as meals and living space for drug users. At the same time, repressive measures in the streets should be abandoned.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: harm reduction, self organisation, self help, open drug scenes, drugs economy,
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Zurich · in German
ZURICH DRUG MANIFESTO 1988de »ZÜRCHER DROGENMANIFEST 1988«
The Zurich Drug Manifesto 1988 calls for, among other things, a consumption room, a reduction of repression, the state distribution of heroin and an attitude of solidarity on the part of the population.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: harm reduction, solidarity, heroin prescription, consumption room, de-criminalisation,
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2 Files West Berlin · in German
Statistics on illegal drug use and trade in West Berlin 1968 – 1981-- »Statistics on illegal drug use and trade in West Berlin 1968 – 1981«
(Format: A4)
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Berlin · in German
Neighborhood against heroinde »Kiez gegen Heroin«
A poster claiming the police uses heroin to destroy alternative neighborhoods in Berlin.
(Type: Poster)
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in Dutch
Press release Rotterdam Junkie Union on heroin distribution to HIV-positive prostitutes-- »Press release Rotterdam Junkie Union on heroin distribution to HIV-positive prostitutes«
In this press release the Rotterdam Junkie Union speaks out in favor of the national plan to provide HIV-positive prostitutes with heroin to prevent the spread of AIDS.
- 'Fucking Hell'. The story of Truus Oldenburg
In 2018, Truus Oldenburg and professional writer Renate Guitink published the life story of Truus, who was then a woman of 58 years old and living in Amsterdam.
1970 – 2020AmsterdamTemporal Coverage: 1970/2020 (2010s,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1980s,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1990s,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2000s,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2010s,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,1970s,2020s,) Read Story -
West Berlin · in German
Leaflet of the West Berlin Hash Rebels 1969-- »Leaflet of the West Berlin Hash Rebels 1969«
Leaflet of the the “Zentralrat der umherschweifenden Haschrebellen" (Central Council of Roaming Hash Rebels) protesting the Berlin premiere of the Musical Hair in late 1969.
(Type: Flyer)
(Format: A4, pink)
Subjects: hash, shelter, subculture, activism,
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Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum-- »Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum«
Image of hard-drug related places and spaces in the Amsterdam City Center in the 1970s and 1980s.
(Type: poster)
Subjects: Places of drug use, sale, addiction treatment, drug related crime,
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Freetown Christiania · in English
Points for discussion after the drug hearing 28 Nov 1979 in Christiania
Points for discussion after the drug hearing 28 Nov 1979 in Christiania - base for the development of a people’s movement agaings hard drugs.
(Type: A4 paper)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: Folkebevæglesen mod hårde stoffer, The people’s movement against hard drugs,
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Copenhagen · in Danish
The Christiania Junk Blockadeda »Christianias junk blokade«
”In Copenhagen, the police hunt down junkies and cannabis dealers. At the same time, heroin is being introduced at a large scale in Denmark. This is clearly felt in Christiania, where the cannabis trade is growing and the number of junkies is increasing. Christiania tries to cooperate with the police to clean up the hash market for junk, but [it fails]. The Free Town community is now taking matters into its own hands and initiating programs for overcoming addiction for junkies and actions against the junk pushers. It culminates in 1979/80, when a blockade is carried out against junk. The junkies at Christiania get the offer to step down or move. The pushers with hard drugs are thrown out corporally.” (https://www.christiania.org/info/christianias-historie/)(Own translation)
(Type: Poster)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: Junk blockade in Christiania,
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in Dutch
Flyer Rotterdam Junkie Union Occupation office drug coordinator Rotterdam-- »Flyer Rotterdam Junkie Union Occupation office drug coordinator Rotterdam«
Flyer Rotterdam Junkie Union on the occupation of the office drug coordinator Rotterdam
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