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    In Portugal, Drug Use Is Treated As A Medical Issue, Not A Crime

    Since 2001, possession or use of any drug has been treated as a health issue in Portugal. The country's drug-induced death rate has plummeted to five times lower than the European Union average.
    by Lauren Frayer Apr 18, 2017 3 minutes
    Gandelina Damião, 78, lost three children to heroin in the 1990s. She says she wishes methadone clinics and other government-sponsored drug treatment had been available to her children before they died.

    Gandelina Damião, 78, is permanently hunched, carrying her sorrow. She lost three children to heroin in the 1990s.

    A quarter century ago, her cobblestone lane, up a grassy hill from Lisbon's Tagus River, was littered with syringes. She recalls having to search for her teenagers in graffitied stone buildings nearby, where they would shoot up.

    "It was a huge blow," Damião says, pointing to framed photos on her wall of Paulo, Miguel and Liliana. "I

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