Portugal to Start Safe-Injection Sites
Portugal, following the lead of Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Vancouver, announced last week that it would begin setting up supervised sites for heroin addicts to inject. The new legislation also increases the availability of methadone treatment for opiate addicts and for prisons to start needle-exchange programs to prevent the spread of disease. This is an expansion of Portugal's liberal drug policies, which included decriminalizing drug use in 2000.
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The problem is that heroin is still arbitrarily banned and sold by criminals. The only difference being that the needles are being provided by government.
Posted by: JT Barrie | October 16, 2006 06:56 AM