NDP, Liberal MPs say Canada can learn lessons from Portugal’s ‘integrated, multifaceted, and patient-centred’ drug model

NDP MP Gord Johns says in his meetings with experts and stakeholders in Portugal he heard ‘no appetite’ for mandating treatment or for a return to criminalizing drug use.

Liberal MP Brendan Hanley, left, and NDP MP Gord Johns, second right, met with Luis Mendão, second left, and João Santa Maria, right, representatives of Grupo De Ativistas em Tratamentos, a community-based integrated response group based in Lisbon's Mouraria district.Photograph courtesy of Gord Johns

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BY STUART BENSON

August 2, 2023

Returning from their trip to Portugal to get a first-hand look at what Canada can learn from that country’s successes and recent challenges in addressing its drug overdose crisis, New Democrat MP Gord Johns and Liberal MP Brendan Hanley say that while the toxic drug crisis...

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