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Re:Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (2017) by dalore on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:57AM (#20434100)
This is what the article touched on. The culture has to shift to viewing drug addicts not as "druggies" but as someone with a problem who needs help. They changed the language they used to call them. Once this shift happened it's led the path to actually helping them instead of vilifying them.
Re:Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (2017) by luckylion on Sunday July 14, 2019 @12:19PM (#20434249)
That's certainly part of it, yeah. But even that is a view that removes drug-use as a valid choice. I certainly agree that those suffering from addiction need help, and we should provide it generously, but not everyone that uses drugs needs help. Similar to alcohol, which a lot (most?) people are able to enjoy responsibly. It seems that there's still the idea that you'd try mdma (or lots of other drugs) and will immediately find yourself in a downward spiral, completely out of control.