Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization policy, stands these days at over a quarter-billion dollars
FILE - Signs at a drug treatment center show where receptacles used to dispense methadone should be disposed of after use on Feb. 24, 2022, in Salem, Ore. Oregon's pioneering drug decriminalization program, which allocates vast resources to rehabilitate drug abusers, has for the first time terminated funding for a service provider amid missed financial reporting deadlines and alleged misspending.
But as of Friday, $184 million has been handed out to these behavioral health resource networks, or BHRNs, in a state of 4.2 million people. “This proposed legislation is grounded in the fundamental principles vital to the success of Measure 110,” Monta Knudson, CEO of Bridges to Change, an addiction recovery organization based in Portland, told lawmakers.
“I don’t really have any confidence in this grantee to move forward with funds because we are already catching a lot of flak about Measure 110," council member Hubert Mathews, Jr. said at the meeting"And I think we need to have grantees that can follow the procedures to be able to do this work.” Red is the Road to Wellness has already been provided with more than $1 million of its allocation, the health authority said. The health authority can recover those funds if it determines any was spent outside the scope of the grant, said health authority spokesman Tim Heider.
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