Homework: Understanding How Portugal Deals with Opioid Addiction ARTICLE

Please read the article, “How Portugal is solving its opioid problem,” and answer the following questions. When writing your homework, you should double-space and type your name, my name, English 1A, and the due date of this assignment in the upper-left hand corner of the first page.

1. What is Portugal’s “local three-person commission for the dissuasion of drug addiction” (Clay, “How Portugal is solving its opioid problem”)? How does it work?
2. The article states that “The Portuguese model is based in humanism—seeing people with drug problems as people with an illness” (Clay, “How Portugal is solving its opioid problem”). How does this treatment based on “humanism” work?
3. What evidence does the article provide to prove that that Portugal’s drug policy is working?

Work Cited

Clay, Rebecca. “How Portugal is solving its opioid problem.” American Psychological Association, Oct. 2018, vol. 49, no. 9, https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/10/portugal-opioid, (Links to an external site.) Accessed 12 Oct. 2020.