Portugal. Lisbon forced to close Safer Smoking Site Amid Funding Challenges
Portugal. Lisbon forced to close Safer Smoking Site Amid Funding Challenges
One of Lisbon’s drug consumption rooms was forced to close their smoking room in January due to funding challenges, limiting services available for people smoking crack in the centre of Portugal’s capital.
The Group of Activists in Treatment (GAT), which runs the drug consumption room and delivers other peer-based services across the city, announced on 25 January that part of their Mouraria site would have to close “for an indetermined period”.
While the injecting space remains open, a lack of funding, staff capacity, and increased political and social pressure against its existence has shuttered the safer smoking room, which was mostly used for smoking crack. (Talking Drugs, UK, 11.03.2025)
https://www.talkingdrugs.org/lisbon-forced-to-close-safer-smoking-site-amid-funding-challenges/