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Top Democrats hope the move would incentivize users to seek help while offering plenty of opportunities to avoid a conviction. It’s likely to have opposition on both sides of the state’s drug debate.

Research led by Oregon Health & Science University finds that half of the treatment facilities surveyed nationally required an up-front payment averaging more than $28,000, and only a few facilities provide free service to people on Medicaid.

Gov. Tina Kotek took Marshall off a task force considering higher beer and wine taxes because of a Facebook post her office called insensitive and inappropriate.

Oregon will soon require health care facilities to provide opioid overdose medication when releasing some at-risk patients.

State health authority officials have launched their second annual campaign aimed at stimulating conversation about drinking and urging those who drink excessively or binge drink to stop.

The fight against fentanyl is increasingly being waged in schools, jails and on city streets in the Pacific Northwest, where state officials in Oregon and Washington have named it a top issue as overdose deaths rise.

Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, plans to introduce a bill in the 2024 session to provide funding for addiction medication, screenings and more.

The initiative comes amid a big jump in the number of teens who’ve died from drug overdoses in the last five years.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum recently convened an all-day meeting with experts from law enforcement and public health to talk about the state's fentanyl crisis.

Oregon Health & Science University author of national study says jails have an opportunity to treat drug addiction.

Police and sheriff's departments around Oregon say they want authority to arrest people who use and possess drugs as a way to steer them to treatment.

A new legislative committee convened Wednesday with a look at the state’s threadbare treatment system.