Lawmakers are looking at more changes to Oregon’s drug decriminalization measure

FILE – A volunteer with the Portland People’s Outreach Undertaking reveals thoroughly clean needles and other materials offered to injection drug users in 2018. Amelia Templeton / OPB Immediately after…

Experts, lawmakers push for expanded access to methadone to save lives

Comment on this story Comment Krystal Parker, a former heroin user, spent years making long daily bus trips with other patients to a methadone clinic in southwest Florida. For over…

Oregon lawmakers consider cutting millions from addiction services after decriminalizing drugs

Two yrs just after Oregon voters decriminalized possession of all medicines, lawmakers are debating getting thousands and thousands of dollars absent from addiction expert services and sending it again to…

Lawmakers adjourn in heat wave, leave governor in hot seat | Health/Fitness

By DON THOMPSON – Linked Push SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers adjourned this year’s legislative session at the onset of a protracted triple-digit heat wave that fed some of…