States Push for Harsher Fentanyl Penalties amid Uptick in Overdose Deaths 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 ...
WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) — A student and a deputy were treated at a hospital Tuesday after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at an Oregon middle school, authorities said.
Fentanyl killed Isa Wilde at 15. His mother wonders if changes in Oregon law might have saved him. Oregon’s medical autonomy laws say once a child turns 15, all health care decisions are theirs to make. To the mother of a son lost to fentanyl poisoning last August, ...
The number is nowhere close to adequate for the unparalleled demand of today, fueled by the pandemic, a dearth of affordable housing, rising homelessness and the surge in more potent meth and fentanyl. “We’re at a point where the imbalance between supply and...
located in the 6000 block of Northeast 37th Avenue. Officers arrived in the area and found 25-year-old Cody Bennett Oller deceased. The Oregon State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined that Oller’s death was the result of a gunshot wound. Oller was living in the Portland ...
She’s stood with outgoing Commissioner Sharon Meieran in raising concerns about the confused and vague objectives of some initiatives, such as the90-day fentanyl emergencythat the county chair called along with Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and ...
She urged Vega Pederson to use her executive authority to greenlight an emergency procurement process under the county’s 90-day fentanyl emergency declaration for the sobering center. That would direct county staff to start drafting specs for a potential buil...