How Portugal Is Kicking its Heroin Habit
Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the ...
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Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. One in a hundred people were using the drug. It took something drastic to turn things around. Here’s how Portugal kicked the habit While the Western World experienced the social and cultural revolution of the sixties Portugal was kept isolated by the dictator Antonio Salazar. In 1974, the Carnation Revolution overthrew his oppressive Estado Novo regime and the Portuguese people were suddenly exposed to newfound freedoms. “Censorship was at an end, freedom of speech restored, elections promised and most important of all, the end of portugal’s colonial wars in Africa” This was the catalyst that would lead to Portugal’s problem. Attitudes towards drugs and experimentation were relaxed. At the same time, the population grew, with u...
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Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. One in a hundred people were using the drug. It took something drastic to turn things around. Here’s how Portugal kicked the habit While the Western World experienced the social and cultural revolution of the sixties Portugal was kept isolated by the dictator Antonio Salazar. In 1974, the Carnation Revolution overthrew his oppressive Estado Novo regime and the Portuguese people were suddenly exposed to newfound freedoms. “Censorship was at an end, freedom of speech restored, elections promised and most important of all, the end of portugal’s colonial wars in Africa” This was the catalyst that would lead to Portugal’s problem. Attitudes towards drugs and experimentation were relaxed. At the same time, the population grew, with u...
