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Posted on 11/22/2023 2:37:55 AM PST by Libloather
Three years after Oregon voted to de-criminalize drug offences - residents are now begging to reverse their decision after seeing an astonishing number of deaths from opioid overdoses.
In 2020 - Oregon voters approved a measure to decriminalize the possession of all drugs including heroin and cocaine. The proposal, known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110, passed with 58.8 percent support.
Now residents of the liberal state are crying out to their politicians to do something about the open-air drug markets that their cities have turned into.
Opioid deaths in Oregon have gone up from 280, before the de-criminalization was voted in, to a whopping 955 deaths that were recorded in 2022.
Oregon's opioid-related deaths have more than tripled - while the nationwide reports have doubled, indicating that the West Coast state are facing a far more serious struggle with drugs.
'This breaks my heart,' says Michael Bock - a private security guard in Portland to Fox.
Bock - who has a 'boots on ground' perspective of the crisis in Oregon - claims that people being burdened with addiction are being neglected and being cast to the side.
'We're talking abut the loss of life and we have to do something different this is serious,' Bock said.
The security guard said that he went from carrying out zero drug overdose revivals to reviving many people on a daily basis.
Fox reported that of the 6,000 tickets issued for drug possession since the law went into effect - only 92 have progressed to assessment and connecting those people to services to combat their drug use.
In Eugene, Oregon, calls for overdoses rose to 823 in 2022 from 438 in 2020 - and this year so far has already seen 858 calls in the city.
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“The best we can do is be honest about drugs, without holding anything back. If they decided to destroy themselves, let them. I think it’s terrible, but what can you do with sovereign human beings bent on self destruction?”
China learned the HARD WAY that a society that doesn’t protect itself from drugs gets their butts kicked. In the case of China, it was the Opium Wars that cost them big chunks of their country, and set them back a hundred years.
Culling the herd. Too bad the herd makes such a mess while they are doing it.
Just lowering the population to save the Climate , whatever save the climate means
(9-15-23) Price of illicit fentanyl in WA drops to as low as 50 cents (or less) a pill.
I tried to feel bad - not
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