Investing in Young People – Harm Reduction in Lebanon

When we speak about injecting drugs use and HIV, we rarely pay any attention to the Middle-East. But if you think that injecting drug use is not prevalent in these countries and young people have no access to heroin or amphetamine — you are wrong. Harm Reduction International — the former IHRA — recognized the gap between the picture shown by governments and the reality of the streets when it decided to organize its latest international harm reduction conference in Beirut, Lebanon in April 2011. Our filming crew was there to explore this gap too. We interviewed drug users, professionals and researchers,