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Comments made by the mayor-elect of S\u00e3o Paulo, Jo\u00e3o Doria Jr., on the future elimination of the \u201cOpen Arms\u201d program, created by the city government, and its replacement by the state government\u2019s \u201cNew Start\u201d program came as a surprise to civil society organizations, which have expressed their concern in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A study<\/a> conducted in 2015 by PBPD<\/a> (Brazilian Drug Policy Platform) found, among other data, that the municipal program has had a positive impact on the lives of more than 90% of its beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpen Arms\u201d, which aims to rehabilitate people in situations of social vulnerability and drug abuse, was introduced in 2014. Although it has not been in place for long, the program has been a pioneer in applying social reintegration and treatment solutions based on scientific evidence and the promotion of human rights, according to the PBPD study.<\/p>\n

The \u201cNew Start\u201d program, meanwhile, is based entirely on confinement – often compulsory – in therapeutic communities and it runs counter to the latest knowledge on care and treatment for people who abuse narcotics. In the more than three years since the program was introduced, it has never been evaluated nor has any data been released on the private institutions that handle the confinement of tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

The PBPD, a network consisting of 44 non-governmental organizations, research centers, groups and associations from different fields, points out in its statement that \u201cany initiative that criminalizes drug users, by treating them as a police matter, or that is based on compulsory confinement barring exceptional cases already provided for in law, should be repudiated\u201d. The organizations also stated that \u201cthe sudden elimination of \u2018Open Arms\u2019 will do nothing to contribute to what is expected from a drug policy, namely: that it is fair, supportive, rational and scientific\u201d.<\/p>\n

>>> Click here<\/a> to read the statement in full.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Comments made by the mayor-elect of S\u00e3o Paulo, Jo\u00e3o Doria Jr., on the future elimination of the \u201cOpen Arms\u201d program, created by the city governm…<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":25084,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[12574,12471],"tema":[12270],"class_list":["post-5757","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glance","tag-joao-doria-jr-en","tag-sao-paulo-en","tema-confronting-institutional-violence"],"acf":{"author":false,"subtitle-pt":"Organizations express concern over proposal of Jo\u00e3o Doria Jr."},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":{"original":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5-300x200.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5-768x513.jpg","large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5-1024x684.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","post_slider_img":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","storyform_xlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","storyform_xxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","storyform_xxxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg","noticia":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cracolandia-21_05-5.jpg"},"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":19,"name":"Joint statement","slug":"glance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":389,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/glance\/","relative_link":"category\/glance\/","langs":{"en":"glance","br":"breve"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":12574,"name":"Jo\u00e3o D\u00f3ria Jr","slug":"joao-doria-jr-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12574,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/joao-doria-jr-en\/","relative_link":"tag\/joao-doria-jr-en\/","langs":{"en":"joao-doria-jr-en","br":null}},{"term_id":12471,"name":"S\u00e3o Paulo","slug":"sao-paulo-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12471,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/sao-paulo-en\/","relative_link":"tag\/sao-paulo-en\/","langs":{"en":"sao-paulo-en","br":null}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"no-more-open-arms","br":"fim-do-de-bracos-abertos"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/no-more-open-arms\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/no-more-open-arms\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}