Multnomah County commissioners were less than dazzled by the performance of the county’s drug deflection center during its first year of operation, which ended Aug. 31.
At a briefing Thursday, commissioners bemoaned the center’s cost, its inability to send people directly into treatment, and missed opportunities to get people into housing.
Of the 354 people who visited the Coordinated Care Pathway Center—the official name for the deflection center—81% were living in a tent, staying with friends or family, living in a car or RV, or staying in a homeless shelter, the county said in the center’s annual report…