Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs): final conference of the Solidify project (5-6 December 2019, Lisbon (Portugal)
Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs): final conference of the Solidify project (5-6 December 2019, Lisbon (Portugal)
Co-hosted by Efus, the city of Lisbon, and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
Supervised Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) have proved to be a safe way to prevent harm related to drug use and insecurity linked to consumption in public spaces and trafficking. However, the establishment of a DCR can give rise to concerns among local residents to which local authorities must respond through dialogue and consensus-building measures. Beyond there is also the difficulty of political resistance as DCRs are still far from being widely accepted or even properly understood by some European political decision-makers.