Drug decriminalization stumbled in Oregon. Other states are taking note.
Many recovery specialists say reverting to a punitive system to treat addiction won’t get people sober or keep users from overdosing.
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Many recovery specialists say reverting to a punitive system to treat addiction won’t get people sober or keep users from overdosing.
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.
Both sides of Oregon’s drug decriminalization debate share a common goal: reducing drug addiction. Can that unity lead to solutions?
A majority of Oregonians support repealing the state’s landmark law that decriminalized small amounts of street drugs and funneled hundreds of millions of tax dollars into treatment programs and services,
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Decriminalization in Oregon. We hear from Tera Hurst, Executive Director of the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, and Morgan Godvin with The Health In Justice Action Lab and Beats Overdose, on drug decriminalization in Oregon and the impact of Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act.