Moving beyond addiction: Clatsop County’s deflection program shows some success - Salem Reporter

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Moving beyond addiction: Clatsop County’s deflection program shows some success - Salem Reporter

Editor’s note: In this four-part series, reporter Ben Botkin spent more than seven months exploring the early impact of Oregon’s new approach to addiction. He combed through state and county records and traveled across the state, meeting with dozens of law enforcement officers, advocates and addiction specialists. He also spent time with people who sell drugs and are addicted to them. In Clatsop County, seagulls squawk and swoop through the sky …