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  2. Oregon leaders declare 90-day state of emergency in ... - AOL

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    Oregon leaders joined forces to declare a 90-day state of emergency in downtown Portland, funneling resources into fighting the city’s deadly fentanyl crisis. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah ...

  3. Fentanyl state of emergency declared in downtown Portland, Oregon

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    Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek ...

  4. Hard hit by the US opioid crisis, Oregon reconsiders ... - AOL

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    Hood spoke to Reuters on a downtown Portland corner, across from where he had just smoked fentanyl and methamphetamine outside an old bus station-turned homeless shelter. Oregonians in 2020 passed ...

  5. As Pacific Northwest fentanyl crisis surges, officials ... - AOL

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    A surge in fentanyl deaths, including among children, has marked the latest iteration of the years-long opioid crisis. The most recent provisional figures from the federal Centers for Disease ...

  6. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time

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    Fentanyl. 2 mg (white powder to the right) is a lethal dose in most people. US penny is 19 mm (0.75 in) wide. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020, around 932,400 from 1999 through 2020 and around ...

  7. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Number of yearly U.S. opioid overdose deaths from all opioid drugs. U.S. yearly overdose deaths, and the drugs involved. Among the 108,000 deaths in 2022, the largest share was related to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids (73,838 deaths). Total drug overdose deaths in the United States. There is an ongoing opioid epidemic (also known as the opioid crisis) in the United States, originating ...

  8. Oregon governor declares fentanyl state of emergency in ... - AOL

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    Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) declared a state of emergency in Portland on Tuesday for a rising number of fentanyl deaths as some state Democrats move to roll back a drug decriminalization law. Kotek ...

  9. Skid row - Wikipedia

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    Skid row. A skid row, also called skid road, is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are mostly poor people "on the skids". This specifically refers to people who are poor or homeless, considered disreputable, downtrodden or forgotten by society. [1] [2] A skid row may be anything from an ...