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30 Dec 2010
Ten years ago Portugal had one of the worst drug problems in Europe and a staggering rate of HIV infection. In response they took a risky strategy and decriminalized the use of all drugs in a groundbreaking law in 2000. The results have been dramatic and now other countries are looking to Portugal.
Between 2000 and 2008:
- There were small increases in illicit drug use among adults, but decreases for adolescents and problem users, such as drug addicts and prisoners.
- Drug-related court cases dropped 66 percent.
- Drug-related HIV cases dropped 75 percent. In 2002, 49 percent of people with AIDS were addicts; by 2008 that number fell to 28 percent.
- The number of regular users held steady at less than 3 percent of the population for marijuana and less than 0.3 percent for heroin and cocaine - figures which show decriminalization brought no surge in drug use.
- The number of people treated for drug addiction rose 20 percent from 2001 to 2008.
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