14 Years After Decriminalizing Heroin, Here's What Portugal Looks Like

Editors Note* As a addiction recovery professional, I am not advocating the legalization of hard drugs, but, we must do something, in the tiny state of New Hampshire, heroin addiction has went up 4 times. Many believe the heroin addiction increase is because the government shut down much of the Oxycontin prescriptions, forcing those in real pain to go to using heroin, something must be done about the situation. Please email any thoughts you have on this to: info@newsin15.com- Ron Mills

The total number of people using drugs in Portugal has actually fallen by more than a third since the country began focusing on treatment programs instead of punishment. In 2001, critics worried that drug addiction rates would skyrocket, but not only have they come down, heroin addiction rates have been cut in half. HIV infections, which…

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