João Castel-Branco Goulão

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Castel-Branco and the second or paternal family name is Goulão.
João Castel-Branco Goulão
Commander of the Order of Prince Henry
Born (1954-05-06) May 6, 1954
Cernache do Bonjardim, Portugal
Residence Lisbon
Nationality Portuguese
Education M.D. 1978
Alma mater University of Lisbon
Occupation physician
Notable work drug law reform
Title City councilman of Faro, Portugal
Term 1993-1997
Board member of chairman, EMCDDA
chairman, Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction
Parent(s) João Augusto Sedge Goulão, Maria de Lourdes Seabra Castel-Branco

João Augusto Castel-Branco Goulão ComIH (born 6 May 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim, Portugal) is a Portuguese physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal. He is credited as being an architect of Portugal's drug policy established in 2000.[1]

From 2009 to 2015, he served as chairman of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)[2] and has been a delegate at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.[3]

Medical career

Goulão attended the University of Lisbon from 1971 to 1978, graduating from the university's Faculty of Medicine. After an internship and residency, he became a general practitioner in 1983.[1]

Beginning in 1987, he started specialising in treatment of drug addicts.[4] From 1988 to 1992, he worked at the Taipas Centre in Lisbon, established in 1987 by the Portuguese Ministry of Health "for the treatment, recovery and social reintegration of drug addicts."[5]

In 1997, he became the national director of the network of drug treatment centres in Portugal. In 1998, Goulão was a member of the 11-person committee that formed the report on which Portugal's current drug policy of decriminalisation was based.[4]

"[The committee] indicated directions in which to move with respect to policies of prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reinsertion. One of our premises is that drug abusers are ill, not criminals, and that they need help," he said.[6]

Appointments

From 1997 to 2002, Goulão served on the scientific committee for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), an agency of the European Union. Since 2005, he has been Portugal's representative at the agency. He served two terms as chairman of the board for EMCDDA (2009–2011 and 2012–2015).[1][7]

Since 2005, Goulão has been head of the General-Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências) (SICAD), within Portugal's Ministry of Health. He is also chairman of Portugal's Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction (Instituto da Droga e da Toxicodependência) (IDT).[1]

Award and Honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sinopse curricular de João Augusto Castel-Branco Goulão" (in Portuguese). Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências (SICAD). 30 April 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Board re-elects unanimously Portuguese member João Goulão as EMCDDA Chairman" (Press release). EMCDDA. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ireland to Host Marc Emery and Dr. Joao Goulao for Speaking Tour". Students for Sensible Drug Policy. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Dr. João Castel-Branco Goulão". Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Decreto 20-A/87, de 12 de Junho" (in Portuguese). MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE. 12 June 1987. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Mario Queiroz (31 July 2012). "In Portugal, We Fight the Illness, Not the People Who Suffer from It". Inter Press Service. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Francesa substitui João Goulão na presidência do Observatório Europeu da Droga". Observador (in Portuguese). 3 December 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Município distinguiu ilustres farenses no dia do concelho" (in Portuguese). Município de Faro. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Leading Drug Policy Reformers to be Honored at International Drug Policy Reform Conference" (Press release). Drug Policy Alliance. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2015.

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