Then you have to explain why, when 16,000 people got $100 tickets under measure 110, less than 1% of them called a toll free treatment hotline to eliminate the ticket.
“While the newly released data has limitations, it gives an idea of how the program’s initial round of grants — for $31.4 million in all — is being spent.
What it shows is that while Measure 110 was pitched to voters as a way to expand access to addiction treatment and recovery, the early spending has only led to about 136 people entering treatment — and that’s out of hundreds of thousands in Oregon who need but are not receiving treatment for substance use.”