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Thousands of people are already being helped by these services, and it seems thousands more will in the near future.

Nearly 10,000 people accessing peer support services that did not exist three years ago is a failure?


Forced treatment is impossible in Oregon without a court order, and is generally ineffective otherwise.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395915003588

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/09/pg/chapter-55-report.pdf

We have only just now started providing increased services to people. It’s more than a year away from when that will be fully implemented and we’ll have robust data


off the street

Housing Services

off of drugs

Peer Support Services, SUD Tx (Low Barrier Substance Use Disorder Treatment)


https://bridgestochange.com/ 7916 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97206

https://www.lifeworksnw.org/ (multiple physical locations) 3716 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97212 | 5240 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | 8425 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97203 | etc

https://www.mhaoforegon.org/ 411 NE 19th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232

Between quarters 1, and 2 the number of people engaged in peer support services nearly doubled. Going from 4.7k people to 9.1k


Drug possession was already decriminalized in Portland




Jail and confinement makes it worse actually. Especially if you have other mental health issues you’re dealing with. Normally I’m fine and function reasonably well, but after spending 3 days locked in an 8’x10’ room at multnomah county jail I was really slipping. Paranoid, vivid visual hallucinations, and some auditory stuff. You get the idea.

That was supposed to be in one of the nicer areas. Most of the people I saw were simply thrown in solitary confinement. Which is considered torture by the UN.


Out of sight out of mind! It has never worked before, but maybe this time is different. We should keep trying the same solutions over and over again and hope it might work one of these times. /s


We only started to allocate funding for BHRNs last year. Takes a while for these services to be set up and start operating in full capacity.