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In 2020 Oregon stopped criminalising people caught with drugs for their own use, instead offering them a choice between a civil fine or having a health screening. As with Portugal’s successful drug decriminalisation, this led to fewer life-scarring criminal records, and many more people in treatment. This briefing demonstrates why decriminalisation works and why Oregon must reestablish it based on best practice models, embedded within properly funded wider social care services.

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