Redmond Police cited a person for possession of fentanyl. Instead of ending up in jail, the person graduated from inpatient drug treatment. Later, the individual moved into Oxford House, a place for ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In the first two months since simple drug possession was recriminalized in Oregon, officials in Multnomah County say that 91 people were referred to deflection instead of being ...

The path legislators chose in the wake of Oregon’s failed experiment with legalizing possession of illegal drugs with Measure 110 was state deflection programs. They are county-led efforts, including ...

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Tell Steve Yamamori that Multnomah County spent more than $3 million renovating an old print warehouse to turn it into a drug-crime deflection center, and his eyebrows rise. Yamamori is president of ...