HarvesterOfEyes

HarvesterOfEyes , 4 months ago to World News in How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed

As far as I remember, yeah, that's essentially what happened. At first, the government and the police saw drug addicts as criminals in the eyes of the law, and tried to go after them, which is, as far as I know, what the US and a lot of other countries do.

HarvesterOfEyes , 4 months ago to World News in How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed

As a Portuguese who was alive (albeit a kid) in the 90s, I can summarize this as we didn't have enough resources (both human and monetary) to keep enforcing the U.S. drug war model. Since it wasn't working and we were reaching a critical situation (like half of Lisbon in particular was filled with drug addicts shooting heroin up their veins), we turned to the experts.

The article implies this was a decision made from the beginning of this epidemic, but it was pretty much a last resort because the other model was unsustainable for the government. Not sure if we would've adopted it if we had US' resources.

Also, just giving context here, not trying to diminish this accomplishment.

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