Portugal. Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site
Portugal. Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site
In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all drugs in 2001, got its first safe consumption site—on wheels. It’s a brand-new, shiny white Peugeot Boxer van.
For this original Filtervideo, I spoke with Adriana Curado, a psychologist from Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (GAT; Group of Activists in Treatment) and Diana Gautier, a social worker with Médicos do Mundo (MdM; Doctors of the World). The two women are co-coordinators and staff members of the Lisbon-based van, and believe that their mobile safe consumption site is a vital way to meet people who use drugs “where they’re at.” (Filter, USA, 10.06.2019, Video, 06:49)
https://filtermag.org/filter-video-inside-portugals-first-mobile-safe-consumption-site/