Fentanyl Crisis in Oregon

UPDATE: New Civil Case Against Asante: The Medical Center is Now Facing $488 Million in Damages MEDFORD, Ore. — A second amendment has been filed in the civil case instituted by Medford law firm, Shlesinger and de Villeneuve, against…

MEDFORD, Ore — Fentanyl destroys communities and tears up families, is how Assistant U.S. Attorney Marco Boccato described the death by overdose of a 16-year-old Medford High School student, Max Gonzalez. Boccato called for a seven year…

Scientists are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to provide a breakthrough in the fentanyl addiction crisis sweeping the nation. The vaccine could go to clinical trial as early as the middle of 2025 and is under development by researchers at…

An Oregon State Police (OSP) stop on the I-5 in Linn County near milepost 223 resulted in a significant drug seizure this week. Over 100 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 11 pounds of suspected fentanyl were confiscated during a traffic…

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. — A Wahington County Circuit Court judge has jailed a 21-year-old for six years and three months for selling fentanyl tablets to a teenage boy who was later found dead in the kitchen of his grandparents’ home. A…

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — An increase in emergency medical responses as well as admissions to the emergency department between March 24 and 29 in the county has led Jackson County Public Health (JCPH) to issue an overdose alert for opioid…

The tragic story of one young man’s death by fentanyl overdose paints a grim picture of the damaging effects this opioid has had on the lives of thousands of Oregonians. In February 2024, it was reported that deaths by fentanyl overdose…

MEDFORD, Ore. — In unrelated cases, three separate drug traffickers who were active in Klamath County were all sentenced to federal prison on the same day. The sentencing follows intensive investigations by the Basin Interagency Narcotics…

Lawmakers, the police, and the criminal justice department can collectively sigh with relief that Oregon’s soft approach to drug possession is over. The majority decision by the House of Representatives and the Senate to recriminalize the…

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek will have the final yeah or nay say when she assesses the pros and cons of House Bill 4002 approved by the Senate on Friday. HB 4002 will reintroduce the criminalization of drug possession and received the support…