The warning comes from the mayors of Campo de Ourique and Alcantara, who, in an open letter signed by several bodies and organizations, ask the Lisbon City Council, the government and other organizations to take urgent action to curb drug use in the Alcantara Valley. . The letter, signed by Pedro Costa, chairman of the Junta de Campo de Ourique and son of Prime Minister António Costa, and Davide Amado, representative of the Junta of Alcántara, mentions that “syringes and other disposable materials are accumulating in public places associated with the use of psychoactive substances, putting people at risk threat to public health.”
The document states that “throughout the districts of Alcántara and Campo de Ourique there has been an increase in the number of homeless people sleeping overnight”, which has led to “adverse social reactions: several residents reported a level of fear and a perceived feeling of insecurity on the street, inside buildings and elevators.”
“If a web summit were held in this area, the problem would be reduced or even solved,” Davide Amado told Renascença. In June, Comunidade Vida e Paz already warned: “Small Casais Ventosos are appearing in Lisbon.”
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Organizations operating in the Avenida de Ceuta area are urgently asking for increased resources and funds for various responses to the problem of substance use. ADVANCED PROGRAM
The organizations propose more premises for consumption and measures to strengthen urban hygiene and public health, as well as the expansion of the pilot project of the Syringe Exchange Program to other places in the Alcántara Valley area.