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Portugal's overdose death rates are a tiny fraction of U.S. fatalities : NPR

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Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, is widely credited with shifting Portugal's addiction response toward a focus on health care and treatment. Overdose deaths have plummeted. Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, is widely credited with shifting Portugal's addiction response toward a focus on health care and treatment. Overdose deaths have plummeted. Talk to people addicted to street drugs in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, and you hear confusion and dismay over the carnage of overdose deaths taking place an ocean away in the U.S. Ana Batista, a soft-spoken woman in her 50s who's been addicted to heroin for years, said she hasn't lost a single friend or family member to a fatal overdose. "No, no, no," she said, speaking at a safe drug consumption clinic, where she had come to inject und

National How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed February 24, 2024 8:13 AM ET Brian Mann Enlarge this image Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, is widely credited with shifting Portugal's addiction response toward a focus on health care and treatment. Overdose deaths have plummeted. Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/via Getty Images Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the Gene

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