as a needed intervention to the challenges Oregon was facing around the harms of arresting and Measure 110 redirected the majority of Oregon’s jailing people for drugs and to provide more services marijuana tax revenue into funding addiction and supports for people in need. [...] Measure 110 resulted in over $300 million to expand addiction services in its first two years alone, • Criminalization contributes to racial resulting in dramatic increases in the number of disparities in arrest and incarceration due clients accessing services: to targeted enforcement. [...] The devastating public suffering in Oregon is Fentanyl began to proliferate the west coast’s drug the result of longstanding government failure supply starting in 2019, and overdose deaths have to address homelessness, overdose, and other dramatically increased as a result, in Oregon and urgent crises. [...] Recriminalizing drugs in Oregon abandons the goal of • a public health approach to drug use and addiction Research shows homelessness rates in Oregon in Oregon by treating it as a crime. [...] bill will likely be that police arrest people for drug possession, the court dismisses their charges due As politicians (re)learn that criminalization will to lack of counsel, and people return to the street not solve – and will worsen – the problems that after experiencing a major life disruption and with Oregonians care about, opportunities to establish a no connections to services or treatment.
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