From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years   
   ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing   
   them is an experiment that has worked.   
      
   "There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in   
   Portugal," said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and   
   Drugs Addiction, a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the law.   
      
   The number of addicts considered "problematic" -- those who repeatedly   
   use "hard" drugs and intravenous users -- had fallen by half since the   
   early 1990s   
      
      
      
      
      
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