''When the drugs came, they hit all at once. It was the 80s, and by the
time one in 10 people had slipped into the depths of heroin use –
bankers, university students, carpenters, socialites, miners – Portugal was in a state of panic.
Álvaro Pereira was working as a family doctor in Olhão in southern
Portugal. “People were injecting themselves in the street, in public
squares, in gardens,” he told me. “At that time, not a day passed when
there wasn’t a robbery at a local business, or a mugging.”
The crisis began in the south. The 80s were a prosperous time in
Olhão, a fishing town 31 miles west of the Spanish border. Coastal
waters filled fishermen’s nets from the Gulf of Cádiz to Morocco,
tourism was growing, and currency flowed throughout the southern Algarve
region. But by the end of the decade, heroin began washing up on
Olhão’s shores. Overnight, Pereira’s beloved slice of the Algarve coast
became one of the drug capitals of Europe:..
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
''Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? '' By Susana Ferreira
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