"compassion without enablement" Pdx/MultCo:

This scam is incredible--most people would fall for it!

From Matthew Perry to baseball player Tyler Skaggs, wealthy men with a long history of getting high use their money, power, and influence to coerce those around them to fetch them drugs. Then those people--peons--are charged with their deaths. washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/07…

5/CSI:OPIOIDs is the only team in the world that speaks with families/friends who lost someone to suicide following a change in pain care We do detailed interviews to learn the whole human story, and not just the medication story General info on us: csiopioids.org

Now that crime rates in Portland are declining, officials can focus their efforts on the real scourge of city streets: unlicensed hot dog vendors working outside venues that sell really expensive hot dogs, Sophie Peel reports. wweek.com/news/county/20…

Morgan Godvin His personal assistant was arrested, and likely just did what he was told. "Pick up the prescription and help me administer it, or I'll fire you" *canned TV laughter*

‘A constant battle:’ Homeless people move back to Southeast Portland camp less than 24 hours after its removal kgw.com/article/news/l…

What if Matthew Perry had his assistant pick him up a fifth of vodka instead, and he drowned drunk in the tub? This wouldn't even be a conversation.

Morgan Godvin As a clinical toxicologist, I am a little doubtful that this death is correctly assigned to ketamine, except that Perry might have fallen asleep and drowned.

It's been such a nice day to find out that Kevin Dahlgren is a scummy piece of shit in a way I didn't realize before. He reuses pictures but changes the message to make it seem like it's about the person in the image.

It's me, I'm the hot dog Queen Pin. I run these streets.

Ketamine saved my life. I self-interrupted a suicide attempt in October of 2022. Before that, I'd begged for help, been to dozens of mental health appointments. The SSRIs I was given to treat my SI/depression triggered the attempt. Read more here: filtermag.org/spravato-ketam…

People with addictions take more personal responsibility for their drug use than everyone else around them, from cops to their family. It's wild. We choose it. We own it. Our drug use is our choice. Only do ignorant others, desperate to hold onto an innocence that never

When I interviewed David Ford in 2018, he was in prison & had no teeth - but TDCJ wouldn't give him dentures. Then my story came out & they did. I promised him that when he got out I'd take him to lunch so he could use them. Last week, that finally happened.

I start classes for my PhD on Monday. It doesn't feel real. So I updated my Twitter bio. That should do the trick.

If Matthew Perry was using alcohol instead of ketamine, he could've ordered it on Instacart. That illicit and/or controlled drugs need to be procured through someone else inserts an impulse to blame them -- when the procurer would've much preferred Instacart.

“PPB made it clear the criteria was strict for deflection programs and expected that most people caught in possession of drugs will go to jail.” Now that’s drugs are recriminalized, they’re being honest about what we knew all along. kptv.com/2024/09/02/4-a…