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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades‐​Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths

www.cato.org /blog/oregon-lawmakers-roll-back-new-strategy-only-four-months-data-revert-decades-old-tactic-linked

Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which put an end to caging people who choose to consume drugs that the government prohibits. The drug decriminalization measure went into effect on February 1, 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic—a time when lockdowns and social distancing policies cut off people who use drugs from lifesaving harm reduction and treatment programs while exacerbating the isolation and despair that drive self‐​medication.

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