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Just over three years since Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, elected officials want to repeal key elements, blaming the law for open drug use and soaring overdoses. But it’s their own hands-off approach that isn’t working, advocates say.

Lawmakers in Oregon are considering three bills that are designed to amend the impacts of Measure 110, which took effect in 2021.

SW Jefferson and Broadway is Portland’s latest drug hub. First responders have new ways to address addiction. It’s up to state legislators if those ideas will work.

Oregon Democratic legislators plan to fight the state’s war on drug addiction and overdoses on multiple battle fronts.

Oregon Democratic legislators plan to fight the state’s war on drug addiction and overdoses on multiple battle fronts.

The lawmakers supporting the bill say it would allow police to confiscate drugs and reduce public drug use. It would also create new diversion opportunities with the aim of steering people toward treatment instead of jail.

Tera Hurst, the executive director of the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, regarding Oregon lawmakers’ proposal to roll back the state’s landmark drug decriminalization law. The legislation has received pushback from both sides of the issue. (OPB — Jan. 23, 2024)

Oregon Democratic lawmakers unveiled a proposal to address the state's drug addiction crisis.

SALEM, Ore. — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. The bill would recriminalize

New bill would recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as a low-level misdemeanor in the state