Drug treatment in Oregon still hitting a bottleneck at inpatient care

Measure 110 has helped support an expansion in substance use outreach throughout Oregon, but there are only so many inpatient drug treatment beds to go around. It isn't clear that the measure, which was supposed to support drug treatment, is helping these inpatient "detox" programs expand to meet the need.

[seventhdayissabbath]

So... If this money isn't available for more beds in established detox centers or for starting more detox centers, where is all the measure 110 money going? Or better yet, who's pocket is it going into?

[THATMOFODIRT]

Jail is a good way to detox.
Make meth, heroin, etc illegal again.

[EM-rexq]

I left Portland five years ago this month for Colorado and sold my rental property in Portland a year ago. Best financial decision I've ever made. I was visiting Portland in June and drove through downtown just to see for myself instead of relying on the media. I saw open drug use on almost every block from the pearl to PSU. Such a shame the Portland government and the homeless industrial complex is just making things unlivable. They care more about their paychecks than helping the city. Portland peaked in 2016 and has been crashing ever since.

[cynthiahurlburt]

Recant measure 110 until infrastructure is installed and functional.

[jeramiahdaley]

Where is measure 110 funding actually going into because all I hear is people using the quote "can't confirm or deny." Please shed some light on this.

[bingsballyhoo]

It is so frustrating that the little amount of money available for help is being mired in nonsensical unclear rules.

[HighNoon]

Wait.. So your telling me that with all that pot sales revenue they could only add 9 facilities and 107 more beds? I call malarkey on that. Give that money back to schools and law enforcement where it was actually doing things for the people of oregon. 😡

[HighNoon]

So nobody wants to open new facilities?

[HighNoon]

4.242 million residents in oregon. $300 million dollars in tax revenue raised in Oregon.. Anyone else see the math here and understand, not every Oregon resident is needing treatment. There’s plenty of money people.. What’s the real issue? What happens to revenue unused during the fiscal year that wasn’t allocated? What happens to a surplus of funds then? Was there any leftover funds any year since implementing Measure 110?

[TK-dvct]

10, 000 more junkies than beds; at that rate if half die then 5, 000 beds away....