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Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin ExaminerThe Coalition to Fix & Improve Measure 110 says it will fix the “administrative error.” -
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMattersUnder two new laws, employers in California can’t ask workers about their use of cannabis outside the workplace and can’t use hair or urine tests. Employees in construction are excluded, as are applicants for federal jobs with background checks.
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Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, plans to introduce a bill in the 2024 session to provide funding for addiction medication, screenings and more. -
Oregon Health & Science University author of national study says jails have an opportunity to treat drug addiction.
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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.
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A new legislative committee convened Wednesday with a look at the state’s threadbare treatment system.
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Prosecutors and Republicans say a 2021 court opinion has made it too hard to convict dealers. Top Democrats are listening.
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Oregon officials want to change the system to motivate people suffering from addiction to get help.
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Three years after Oregon voters elected to decriminalize drugs, a new study has concluded that the first-in-the-nation law has not led to increased drug use or drug overdoses.
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Oregon voters in 2020 passed Measure 110, a first-in-the-nation law decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of controlled substances such as heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine and fentanyl. Three years later, public drug use has wearied even the most tolerant of Oregonians. Now, the Oregon law faces significant overhaul or repeal, a prospect likely to slow movements in other states to treat addiction as a public health issue.
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Oregon Recovers, a Portland-based nonprofit, urged state leaders to change – but not eliminate – Measure 110, which decriminalized low-level drug possession.
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Oregon State University researchers find that frequent use and addiction rates also increase among non-college young adults.
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Up until 2020, police and the courts were the ones most often on hand when someone hit their rock bottom. But when Oregon voters decriminalized drugs through Measure 110, the criminal justice system lost a lot of its power to coerce people into treatment. Suddenly, and for more than two agonizing years, there's often been nobody waiting at rock bottom.
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A newly unveiled proposal would give the Oregon Health Authority a greater role in distributing money for expanded addiction services, among other things.
