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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Is it time to decriminalize drug use?

Lauren Frayer LISBON, Portugal (Aug. 14) -- Ten years ago, Portugal had some 100,000 heroin addicts -- about 1 percent of its entire population. HIV infections from injecting drugs were among the highest in Europe.

Now the addict count has been cut nearly in half. HIV infections from drug use have fallen more than 90 percent. And the policy shift responsible for such a dramatic improvement in Portuguese life is something U.S. lawmakers -- watching an escalating drug war on their southern border -- might consider worthy of some attention: decriminalization.
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  1. KWAugust 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Now here is a place where logic might actually improve the situation.

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  2. TomAugust 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    Sigh! Despite my mistrust of statistics and my lifelong resistance to decriminalization of addictive drugs I must – sigh! Concede.

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