US: Nearly 200 Defendants Charged in Series of Arrests Targeting...
Nearly 200 people have been charged as part of a series of arrests targeting large-scale drug-trafficking organizations operating throughout the United States. “Over just three days and across 10...
View ArticleOR: Three years after decriminalization, Oregon frets over drug use
When police officer Eli Arnold stops a homeless man smoking methamphetamine on the street in Portland, he simply writes him a ticket with a $100 fine. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon...
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OR: Crisis in the Northwest: Fentanyl ‘killing the mentally ill for a dollar...
Oregon voters, lawmakers call for reinstitution of criminal penalties three years after passing nation’s first decriminalization law This story is part of a series examining the drug and homeless...
View ArticleOR: Crisis in the Northwest: Drugs leave rural areas to rot in the shadows,...
Rural Oregon struggles to weather fentanyl epidemic, feels ‘left out’ of policy decisions This story is part of a series examining the drug and homeless crises plaguing Oregon. Read part one and part...
View ArticleOR: Crisis in the Northwest: Inside one of Oregon’s largest homeless camps...
‘God changed my heart’: After 27 years in the drug world, one man is using the gospel to help Oregon’s homeless This story is part of a series examining the drug and homeless crises plaguing Oregon....
View ArticleOR: Nurse could face dozens of lawsuits for switching fentanyl drips with tap...
The first such lawsuit seeks $11.5 million on behalf of a patient who died due to bacterial infection from the tap water The first lawsuit brought amid reports that a nurse at a southern Oregon...
View ArticleOregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession
APNews Article SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bill recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs was passed by the Oregon Legislature on Friday, undoing a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation...
View ArticleOR: Oregon State Hospital suspends in-person visits after patient dies of...
The psychiatric hospital is reviewing its in-person visitation policies as Oregon State Police investigate the overdose. A patient at Oregon State Hospital died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on...
View ArticleOR: Oregon Patients Needed Fentanyl But Got Tap Water — And It Went Unchecked...
Poor data and coordination between regulatory agencies contribute to hospital drug thefts, experts say The news out of Medford, Oregon, in December 2023 was explosive: A nurse in the intensive care...
View ArticleOregon reverses course and recriminalizes drug possession
Oregon decriminalized possession of hard drugs in 2020 People caught in possession of hard drugs will once again be at risk of state criminal penalties after the state of Oregon opted to recriminalize...
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