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In the course of the project, it became more clear that decriminalization was part of a broader policy aimed at “harm reduction” in the broadest possible sense. Consequently, the interviewees and the Project Panel focused more on the consequences of the Portuguese Drug Strategy for the whole drug policy field, including prevention, treatment, and social rehabilitation ("reinsertion"). This chapter gives an overview of the perspectives of the interviewees and the Project Panel on the National Drug Strategy.
These include: • fines, ranging from 25 to 150 EURO. g. g. specific discotheques); • ban on meeting with specific other persons; • interdiction on travel abroad; • requirement to report periodically to the administrative committee; • withdrawal of the right to carry a gun; • confiscation of personal possessions; • cessation of subsidies or allowances that a person receives from a public agency. The administrative committee cannot mandate compulsory treatment, although its orientation is to encourage addicts to enter and remain in treatment.
Besides, he is probably hired because he has experience in doing evaluations. An 38 external evaluator will, however, have to learn about the program before he can start evaluating. An external evaluator is probably more expensive as well (Nadeau, 1981). 163). Key questions for evaluations. When planning an evaluation, the following questions should be taken into account: • What do we want to evaluate? The object of evaluation determines the method of evaluation and the type of data needed. For example, evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of a medical treatment does not need to look at the cost of treatment, although this is a pivotal element in a cost-effectiveness analysis.