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Measure 110 forced Oregon to build a new drug addiction services model. Here’s how that’s going

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.









In rural Oregon, psilocybin is on the ballot – but still a mystery

This election, more than two thirds of Oregon’s counties will vote on whether to opt out of the state’s new psilocybin program. But the program will start next year in 137 cities and 10 urban counties, regardless. Opting out is largely a rural discussion and in some places, there’s not much discussion at all.

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