Under the new law, possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill Monday restoring criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of hard drugs, reversing a first-in-the-nation law that advocates had hoped would help quell a deepening addiction and overdose crisis.
Under the new law, the possession of small amounts of drugs such as heroin or methamphetamine will be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail.
Drug treatment will be offered as an alternative to criminal penalties.
If you want to stop people from dying the only way for this to work is to decriminalized the manufacturering of control substances and regulate it. The only reason why people are dying is because nobody knows what the purity of what they taking or even if it’s the drug they were claimed to be sold. This will not solve the addiction aspect and nobody says it will, that’s what proper Healthcare treatment is for however it will stop the overdoses while removing the cartels cash flow.