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.
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With Biden Team Focused On Other Crises, Experts Say Drug Epidemic Is Exploding
at 9:18 am NPR
In the weeks after winning the November election, Joe Biden began naming officials to tackle the vortex of crises his administration would face on day one.
There was a team for the coronavirus, a team for climate change, a team for racial justice and a team for the stricken economy.
But despite a soaring death rate from drug overdoses, which hit a grim new record in 2020, President Biden hasn t named permanent leaders for three key agencies tasked with tackling the drug epidemic: the Food and Drug Administration, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
With Biden Team Focused On Other Crises, Experts Say Drug Epidemic Is Exploding
By Brian Mann
January 29, 2021
In the weeks after winning the November election, Joe Biden began naming officials to tackle the vortex of crises his administration would face on day one.
But despite a soaring death rate from drug overdoses, which hit a grim new record in 2020, President Biden hasn’t named permanent leaders for three key agencies tasked with tackling the drug epidemic: the Food and Drug Administration, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“It’s a front burner issue on any day of the week but not on this day,” Reuben Guttman, an expert on drug policy who teaches at Emory Law, said last week in an interview with NPR. “And that’s a real problem.”