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What can we learn from Portugal’s approach to drugs and addiction?
The Undark Podcast: Communities around the globe are struggling with a rise in drug overdoses and deaths. Now, they’re turning to Portugal, a country that decriminalized illicit drugs two decades ago, for solutions
7 April 2021, 7:56am
A Portuguese police officer supervises the dispensation of heroin substitute methadone from a takeaway van
Welcome to The Undark Podcast, a feature-length exploration of a single topic at the intersection of science and society. In this episode, join global health journalist Elana Gordon and podcast host Lydia Chain as they sort through the policies that underlie Portugal s drug decriminalization approach which Oregon, the first U.S. state to decriminalize all drugs, used as a model for their new law. But many questions about how success may translate remain unanswered.