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 ...

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 ...

Data compiled by the Oregon Health Authority showed 16,000 people accessed services for drug treatment in the first year of decriminalization ... because of drug use is what’s failed ...

According to the report — which used statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2018-19, among other sources — Oregon ranked the ...

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 − ...

Oregon has ended its ... But in the four years since it passed, the measure was widely considered a failure, leading to more open drug use and blamed for an increase in overdoses.

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 ...

Rundown trailers streaked with graffiti that sit along a windy gravel road just outside Ontario in eastern Oregon are part of an encampment that’s rife with guns and drugs and people on edge.

With a new law in place, anyone caught using drugs on TriMet buses and trains could be facing up to a year behind bars. Read online: <a href="https://www.koin.com ...

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 ...