It was the central campaign theme in Oregon when the ... going after almost two years? Funded by groups that downplay the harms of substance use and aim to legalize all drugs, Measure 110 has ...

Last year, 53% of overdose deaths involved the combined use of a stimulant and an opioid, according to the state health agency. Over the past decade, Oregon has seen its number of drug overdoses ...

Three years ... 7,600 drug violations, only about 200 calls to the number have been made, according to data from the state city. The surge in open drug use has given way to concern from Oregon's ...

It was a dramatic retreat from the war on drugs. But, sadly, it has yet to help. Oregon has the second highest substance use disorder rate in the country, and in the past year, the states suffered ...

A Portland police mobile command vehicle sits outside Couch Park on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. For five days last week, police ...

But increasing homelessness and visible drug use have spurred panic over drugs, which overruled statistics ... of drug use in Oregon have remained fairly stable in recent years, fentanyl makes ...

It's been two years since Oregon decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs. It's an effort to offer alternatives to the criminal justice system for those struggling with substance use.

In November 2020, facing a record-breaking overdose crisis, voters in Oregon ... drug use as a health issue rather than a criminal issue. The passage of Measure 110 was the culmination of years ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that ends the first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law that was enacted three years ago ... approach to drug use and possession − ...

The governor of Oregon has declared an emergency in the city of Portland a few years after the state became the first in the nation to largely decriminalize drug use. Oregon paved the way as the ...

It aims to make it easier for police to crack down on drug use in public and introduced ... grants roughly over the course of the next year. Oregon House Republican Minority Leader Jeff Helfrich ...

A first-in-the-nation law decriminalizing drugs expired, as communities across America struggle to curb fentanyl use and ... people. Oregon legislators reassessed Measure 110 this year and decided ...