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‘OPB Politics Now’: Fentanyl, overdoses and Measure 110 in the spotlight

By Andrew Theen (OPB)
Sept. 29, 2023 10:12 p.m.
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Fentanyl use in Portland and other cities is a national crisis, but in Oregon the passage of Measure 110 harkened something entirely different. Now the political repercussions about that measure continue to reverberate. On the latest episode of OPB Politics Now, reporters Dirk VanderHart, Lauren Dake and Jonathan Levinson discuss fentanyl, Measure 110′s critics and much more.

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