Then & now: Portugal's drug decriminalisation →

February 03, 2020 by Oliver Gordon

Back in 1999, Portugal experienced 369 overdose deaths and in 2016, the number was just 30. The number of new HIV diagnoses due to injecting has plummeted from 907 in 2000 to 18 in 2017. The new laws have also had an impact on incarceration with the number of people behind bars for drug offences falling from 3,863 in 1999 to 1,140 in 2017. STATISTA

Herbs and hotels: The small businesses helping revive rural Portugal →

November 28, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

Portugal's rural areas have been losing population for several decades now a growing number of small businesses are propping up the rural interior, drawn by the availability of land. PLACE

Portugal solved is drug crisis. Why can't America do the same? →

November 22, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

When 1% of its population was caught in the grips of a heroin epidemic, Portugal took the radical step to decriminalize drugs. It worked. HUFFPOST