After drug use was decriminalized in Portugal, drug-related deaths plummeted.
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00:00Okay, heroin, marijuana.
00:28It's a complete package of policies that are sticked together by this idea of decriminalizing,
00:46of looking at drug addiction as a disease, like the others, like diabetes or hypertension
00:54or whatever.
01:01We have too much of a tolerance for drug use, psychologically, politically, morally.
01:09We need to say, as Nancy Reagan said, just say no, don't do it.
01:24We do a psychosocial assessment of the person, we try to understand if there are psychological
01:45or psychiatric problems, to understand what are the influences of consumption at the person's
01:51level.
02:07This disease will bring you to your knees, you lose it.
02:11You lose yourself.