While the world has been fixated on the results of the presidential election in the United States, less attention has been paid to another outcome of the vote: significant steps toward the decriminalisation of drugs in several states.
Oregon is now set to abolish criminal penalties for possession of small quantities of all illegal drugs, from heroin to methamphetamine. This approach should be applauded — and adopted far more broadly., including 11-million who do so by intravenous injection. Nearly half of those who inject drugs are living with hepatitis C and 1.4-million with HIV.
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