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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by DanBC on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:09AM (#11883028)
They also provide plenty of support for drug users.

I'm not sure the same would be true in the US, seeing the piss-poor state of mental health treatment in the US.

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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by rosser on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:13PM (#11884558)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. That's, to my mind, one of the best aspects of Portugal's system: they treat drug abuse as a medical problem, and offer free treatment.

In the US, offering treatment like that would probably be decried as welfare-state redistributory nonsense.

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