{"id":1733,"date":"2011-07-01T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2011-07-01T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:55:08","slug":"portugal-drug-law-show-results-ten-years-on-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;AFP &#8211; Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal&#8217;s decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal,&#8221; said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and Drugs Addiction, a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The number of addicts considered &#8220;problematic&#8221; &#8212; those who repeatedly use &#8220;hard&#8221; drugs and intravenous users &#8212; had fallen by half since the early 1990s, when the figure was estimated at around 100,000 people, Goulao said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20110701-portugal-drug-law-show-results-ten-years-experts-say#\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20110701-portugal-drug-law-show-results-ten-years-experts-say#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;AFP &#8211; Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal&#8217;s decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked. &#8220;There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal,&#8221; said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}