re: Oregon just re-criminalized drug possession and use

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Arguably, Oregon did two things here.

1) they decriminalized
2) they stopped enforcing a bunch of other laws regardless vagrancy, public decency, and the like.

You don't necessarily have to do #2 after allowing #1. There's no reason for that to be a package deal.

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This. And 3) they didn't implement improved access to treatment, and hell id even be in favor of enforcing treatment.


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As of a March 2019 report — prior to Measure 110 — there were 13 withdrawal management facilities licensed with the Oregon Health Authority, for a total of 201 beds. Those facilities were located in just nine of Oregon's 36 counties.

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That's just sad. 13 facilities for the entire state. Hell NELA probably has at least that (plus a thriving recovery community) and plenty of sober houses. Simply decriminalizing without offering access to treatment and on top of that stopping enforcement of other laws is a recipe for disaster that anyone should have been able to see coming