SHORTS: INSIDE DOPE:

'The Big Fix: Portugal's truce on drugs' by Susana Ferreira is an important story about a completely new take on tackling drug use and related health  and social problems. Published in The Guardian.

'Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime. If this conservative country could do it, why hasn't the world followed.'

Originally published in www.thecommononline.org

'When the drugs came, they hit all at once. It was the eighties, one in ten residents slipped into the deep of heroin addiction—bankers, university students, carpenters, socialites, miners—and Portugal fell into a panic.'