A little something for the people who are interested in what's
happening in Oregon:

"Money for Measure 110 addiction services finally arrives; Oregon
auditors spot problems'

By Emily Green (The Lund Report)
June 2, 2022 4:41 p.m.

"State auditors issued a “risk” letter flagging issues even as the drug decriminalization act’s oversight council finished approving grant applications.

After nearly six months of delays, funds are closer to reaching
addiction services providers in Oregon. The council overseeing Measure
110′s rollout finished approving grant applications on Thursday and
grantees should have their money by the end of the summer.

The milestone comes one day after the Oregon Secretary of State’s
Office, which is conducting an audit, sent a letter to Oregon Health
Authority calling out “areas of risk” in the way the program has been administered so far.

OHA Director Patrick Allen noted his agency’s “missteps” on Measure 110 in presentations to legislative committees on Wednesday and Thursday.

“There’s been some challenges, and not least of which we’ve certainly made some mistakes as we’ve done this work,” he told the Senate
Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Committee on Wednesday. He said the
agency “vastly underestimated the complexity” of reinventing the
behavioral health system and that the pandemic has placed additional
stresses on the agency’s workforce, which led to competing priorities." [snip]

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/02/oregon-measure-110-funding-addiction-treatment-audit/

One of the interesting things about this is that it isn't a
significant political issue here. We have 3 people actively running for governor here and I haven't heard any of them say anything about ending
this program. The general consensus here is that the "war on drugs" was
a failure and we need to do something differnt. You *KNOW* what they say
about insanity and doing the same thing over and over and over and over..............

TB

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