Oregon Initiative Proposal 44 would create the Drug Addiction and Recovery Act. Here's what that means. Editor's note: This story was updated March 10 to reflect the more recent signature tally. Organizers behind the initiative to reduce the pun ...
6 Mar 2020 - Street Roots
Harm reduction, anyone? For the past two years Street Roots has covered what some are calling an opiate/heroin epidemic in the region. SR is in no place to determine if the region is dealing with what we can call an epidemic — but it’s not pretty. Last we ...
26 May 2010 - Street Roots
Addiction Compassion: Punishment isn’t the cure Gabor Maté’s “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” is a look at addiction and drug policy based on the author’s experience as a doctor working with addicts in the impoverished down ...
3 Feb 2010 - Street Roots