Portugal’s remarkable public health strides after changing its approach to drugs may not be replicable in other countries absent broader systemic reforms.
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Researchers found a sharp rise in calls to US poison centers about magic mushrooms coincided with their decriminalization in several US cities and states.
Decriminalizing drugs is not intended as a solution to drug problems. Rather, it is a critical first step that’s necessary, but not sufficient, for replacing prohibition with a public health approach.
Overdose deaths did go up in Oregon after drug decriminalisation, but they were already increasing, as they were in nearby states.
Does the success of this single issue minor party mean that Australians are finally ready to ‘legalise it’?
Decriminalisation of illicit drugs is the natural conclusion to decades of research on drug-related harms.
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem drug use help, not punishment.
Drug users are already among the most marginalized and stigmatized populations in times without a pandemic. Unless we decriminalize drug use, once again they will bear the brunt of another deadly disease.
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Researcher of Epidemiology, University of Virginia
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Program Cooridnator with Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs., Dalhousie University
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Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Honors, University of Maine
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Professor, Sociology Department, Washington State University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maine
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Professor, Sociology Department, Oregon State University