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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2376169" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>i dont really like vice its quite commercialized, but anyways i first heard about portugal decriminalizing all drugs in michael moores latest movie.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin?utm_source=vicenewsfbcaads" target="_blank">Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News</a></p><p></p><p>The rate of new HIV infections in Portugal has fallen precipitously since 2001, the year its law took effect, declining from 1,016 cases to only 56 in 2012. Overdose deaths decreased from 80 the year that decriminalization was enacted to only 16 in 2012. In the US, by comparison, more than <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html" target="_blank">14,000 </a>people died in 2014 from prescription opioid overdoses alone. Portugal's current drug-induced death rate, three per million residents, is more than five times lower than the European Union's average of 17.3, according to EU <a href="http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_239505_EN_TDAT15001ENN.pdf" target="_blank">figures</a>.</p><p></p><p>drug use has fallen over the past 15 years and now ebbs and flows within overall trends in Europe. Portuguese officials estimate that by the late 1990s roughly one percent of Portugal's population, around 100,000 people, were heroin users. Today, "we estimate that we have 50,000, most of them under substitution treatment,"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2376169, member: 56035"] i dont really like vice its quite commercialized, but anyways i first heard about portugal decriminalizing all drugs in michael moores latest movie. [URL="https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin?utm_source=vicenewsfbcaads"]Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News[/URL] The rate of new HIV infections in Portugal has fallen precipitously since 2001, the year its law took effect, declining from 1,016 cases to only 56 in 2012. Overdose deaths decreased from 80 the year that decriminalization was enacted to only 16 in 2012. In the US, by comparison, more than [URL='http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html']14,000 [/URL]people died in 2014 from prescription opioid overdoses alone. Portugal's current drug-induced death rate, three per million residents, is more than five times lower than the European Union's average of 17.3, according to EU [URL='http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_239505_EN_TDAT15001ENN.pdf']figures[/URL]. drug use has fallen over the past 15 years and now ebbs and flows within overall trends in Europe. Portuguese officials estimate that by the late 1990s roughly one percent of Portugal's population, around 100,000 people, were heroin users. Today, "we estimate that we have 50,000, most of them under substitution treatment," [/QUOTE]
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