Addiction

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

The Matthew Perry Foundation was launched Friday in honor of the late "Friends" actor, who struggled with unhealthy substance use for decades.

Marion County’s status as home to the state capital adds symbolic weight to those opposing Measure 110.

Prosecutors and Republicans say a 2021 court opinion has made it too hard to convict dealers. Top Democrats are listening.

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have surged but medications that could save thousands of lives "are sitting on the shelf unused," according to new research.

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, oftentimes no one has been waiting at rock bottom.

A lawyer for Oregon Recovers, an addiction recovery advocacy group, has sent a letter asking that a member of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission be disqualified from an upcoming vote on whether to raise the surcharge on liquor sales from 50 cents to $1.

The bill directs state agencies to prepare supplemental lessons on the dangers of fentanyl for school districts by the 2024-2025 school year.

Alcohol is the third leading cause of preventable death in Oregon. A tax increase could help reduce consumption.

Local governments are trying to get lawmakers to reroute tens of millions of dollars currently paying for addiction services back to them. That has service providers up in arms.