Departments say showing a warrant immediately would be impossible in most cases Local police and sheriff’s departments charged with enforcing the laws of the land aren’t in compliance with one of the laws governing their authority to do so. According to ...
14 Aug 2015 - Emily Green
Killing is inevitable when drug market is controlled by criminals rather than regulators, argues author of ‘Chasing the Scream’ After spending a hundred years and a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs, there’s one thing we know for certain: Prohibi ...
20 Aug 2015 - Emily Green
As public drug injection draws criticism in Portland, other U.S. cities fight for a controversial solution On the concrete floor of a public restroom, inside a parking garage in Portland’s Old Town, a heroin addict took his last breaths. He was overdosing ...
27 Aug 2015 - Emily Green
The hope is offenders required to enroll in treatment are prepared to get clean once they leave Inverness Jail The jailhouse experience might start to feel more like rehab for some Multnomah County inmates. As soon as Oct. 1, a 59-bed dormitory inside Inv ...
3 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
She grew up punk in conservative Tehran, but don't tell Dela Moradpour she was 'oppressed' With her labret, tongue and eyebrow piercings and jet-black, turquoise-streaked hair, Delaram Moradpour, known as “Dela,” might have blended seamless ...
21 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
Inge Fryklund talks about U.S. soldiers caught in Afghanistan’s poppy wars As a Chicago prosecutor in the 1980s, Inge Fryklund witnessed drug prohibition play out in the American courtroom. Decades later, as an adviser to U.S. military deploying to Iraq a ...
24 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
Goals include decreasing prescriptions for drugs like OxyContin, reducing overlapping prescriptions, making naloxone more accessible It took Oregon practitioners only six months to write more than 1.4 million prescriptions for hydrocodone and oxycodone, a ...
1 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
A free performance will relay personal stories about having a loved one behind bars Family members of the United States’ 2.3 million inmates often undergo economic hardship and feelings of loss and frustration as they grapple with the incarceration of a l ...
8 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
Neal Lemery visits several inmates regularly and stays in touch with those he’s mentored who are on parole Before retiring in 2013, Neal Lemery spent most of his judicial career presiding over courtrooms in Oregon’s northern coastal cities. Today, he dedi ...
8 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
In the wake of the COAB chairman's resignation, a pattern of infighting, mistrust and general frustration with a lack of process emerged. UPDATE June 1, 2016: On the heels of Kathleen Saadat's resignation, COAB member and co-chair of the Mental ...
13 Oct 2015 - Emily Green