Anthony Daniels

Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of “City Journal”. As a psychiatrist, he worked in prisons and in many countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Under the pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple, he published “Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses” and the article “Don’t Legalize Drugs…”, among other works on health, education, politics and culture.

Co-founder and chair of the board of GAT - Treatment Activists Group, an NGO focused on the prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and care of HIV / AIDS and viral hepatitis, for the improvement of health, rights, and quality of life of those affected. He was the founder and director of the Portuguese Anti-Prohibitionist Association and has been a community consultant for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, among other international organizations. He has a degree in Biochemistry from the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris.

Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto and has interventional experience as a clinical psychologist and in a street context with drug users and sex workers. She is deeply involved in action-research communitarian projects and collaborates on a regular basis with international research and intervention networks linked to the provision of care to populations in situations of social vulnerability.

Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University, visiting fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. Ph.D. in Philosophy (Harvard University), de Marneffe is the author of "Liberalism and Prostitution" (Oxford University Press, 2010) and "The Legalization of Drugs", the latter co-authored with Doug Husak (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Interview with João Goulão

General director of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD), and national coordinator for Drug Problems, Drug Addiction and Harmful Use of Alcohol. Graduate in Medicine, he chaired the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and integrated the Organizing Committee of the National Strategy for the Fight against Drugs, based on the decriminalization of consumption, risk reduction and drug treatment.