Drugs

Lawmakers said the Fentanyl Awareness for Children and Teens in Schools Act would replicate local education programs such as Beaverton School District’s Fake and Fatal campaign.

Effort underway to recriminalize drugs again, supporters include Oregon's richest businessmen

Two decades after decriminalizing drugs, Portugal faces some of the same problems that hound Oregon, though on a smaller scale.

A new study finds a 50-fold growth in deaths from combined use of stimulants and opioids. The toxic and contaminated drug supply is to blame.

With a little bit of preparation, anybody can save a life. That’s the message of addiction medicine nurses from Oregon Health & Science University, who are encouraging people to carry a drug that can reverse an overdose.

People in Multnomah and Clackamas counties who are addicted to fentanyl will soon have a new place to go for inpatient treatment. A 16-bed center opened in East Portland on Friday. It is also the first alcohol and drug withdrawal management facility in the state that was paid for with funding from Measure 110.

Portland City Council will advance a plan to penalize public drug consumption next week, despite legal barriers to doing so.

Ivan Howtopat's family believes he should have been taken to a hospital for fentanyl withdrawal.

Oregon’s Measure 110 passed in 2020 and aimed to address drug addiction through increased treatment and recovery efforts. Jackson County commissioners say it hasn’t worked.

We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.