Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Aimed to Make Cops a Gateway to Rehab, Not Jail; State Leaders Failed to Make It Work.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. It’s a scene police say plays out all too frequently in downtown Portland. An officer hands someone a $100 ticket for possessing the deadly narcotic fentanyl…

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