Fentanyl fuels record homeless deaths in Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland Oregon lawmakers to introduce bill barring utility rate increases amid unresolved wildfire lawsuits Wisconsin police chief overseeing school shooting probe is named to Seattle job The shooting at Legacy ...
having a small amount of fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin or lsd now warrants a punishmenton a par witha speeding ticket. In the two years since the new law took effect, drug arrests are indeed down. However, overdose deaths in Oregon have risen sharply, ...
March 21, 2023Admin Several states are advocating for harsher fentanyl penalties as overdose deaths surge in the U.S. Nevada, Oregon, Alabama, Texas, West Virginia and South Carolina have all pushed to increase the length of sentences for fentanyl dealers, according to the Associated Press. Fen...
For the third year, May 7 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Tom Hallman Woman on her way to work found 5-year boy police say was kidnapped in SE Portland She looked out a car window on her commute and noticed a boy in the back of a wagon that a woman was pulling. Tom Hallman A...
The bigger consequence that came with decriminalization was the spike in overdoses around the State. In 2019, the year before Measure 100 passed, 280 people in The Beaver State died of a drug overdose. In 2022 that number mire than tripled with 956 deaths. By the end of June 2023, there...