Published on: 2025-07-04 04:34:46
The state of Oregon, which has long struggled with one of the worst drug-addiction crises in the US, last year announced $20m in grants to help connect people to substance-use services. The funds, the governor and lawmakers said, would go to counties to support a “treatment first” approach, encouraging jurisdictions to get drug users into recovery programs, instead of arresting and jailing them. Some local governments, however, have spent the taxpayer-funded grants to beef up law enforcement.
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