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A delegation of more than two dozen Oregon officials and advocates returned this past weekend from a trip to Portugal, where they studied the country’s health-focused response to substance abuse disorders. The visit comes on the third anniversary of Oregon voters’ passage of Measure 110, which decriminalized all drugs in the state and funneled millions […]

The Health Justice Recovery Alliance, the organization that backed Measure 110, is buying a trip for elected leaders and law enforcement to go to the European nation.

London Breed, mayor of San Francisco (right) has halted the funding for the citys controversial Linkage Center in the Tenderloin, which was meant to connect vulnerable people to services.

The streets of Portland are said to resemble an open air drug market after state officials scheme to decriminalize hard drugs seemingly fails.

Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses

Oregon officials and lawmakers say efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of the states pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers...

Oregon officials on Thursday admitted that their pioneering drug decriminalization scheme had not gone as well as hoped in its first year of operations.

Oregon botched drug treatment plan tied to decriminalization | 2022-06-03 10:45:50

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as part of Oregon's pioneering drug decriminalization have been botched even as drug addictions and overdoses increase, state officials and lawmakers said on Thursday.