De visita en el primer espacio móvil de consumo seguro de Portugal

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De visita en el primer espacio móvil de consumo seguro de Portugal

12 julio 2019

Este servicio pionero en Lisboa se activará en Oporto e irá seguido de otros dos centros fijos. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

By Filter Mag

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 Filter video, 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.”

The van is stocked with all the supplies needed to inject safely. Inside are two stations with a table and chair for injecting drugs and a private space where people can meet with staff. Hepatitis C and HIV testing and a “kit redução de riscos” are available to everyone in the community where the van parks.