Oregon must ‘stay the course’ on soft heroin laws despite skyrocketing overdose rates: drug law proponents.
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But critics accuse the law of fueling addiction and crime in parts of the state, especially Portland, and the measure became a hot topic in this year’s gubernatorial race. Drug possession is now a Class E violation, punishable by a maximum $100 fine, which people can have waived if they call a hotline and complete a treatment assessment. Oregon Health & Science University’s head of addiction medicine, Dr. Todd Korthuis, said few people are calling the hotline, and most are only doing so to get their citation waived.
“There’s very little evidence that coercive treatment works,” Williams said. “Most people who use drugs recreationally don’t think they have a problem and thus don’t think they need treatment. So why would you force them into treatment?”Portland Press Herald via Getty Bridges to Change received about $12.5 million, which Studer said salvaged one of their programs that was about to close due to lack of funding and will allow them to hire dozens of more employees and fund 202 new beds.
Notes: Provisional counts for 12-month periods ending in July of each year . Predicted provisional counts represent estimates of the number of deaths adjusted for incomplete reporting.Schmautz agreed that addiction is a medical issue, but attributed many of the “societal ills” Portland is dealing with to addiction.
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