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Moving beyond addiction: In eastern Oregon, drug use often lurks in the shadows • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Trailers and mobile homes are parked in a dirt lot near Ontario on Oct. 23, 2024. Due to illicit drug activity, this encampment in Malheur County is called "fentanyl flats." (Photo by Ben Botkin/Oregon Capital Chronicle)Rundown trailers streaked with graffiti that sit along a windy gravel road just outside Ontario in eastern Oregon are part of an encampment that’s rife with guns and drugs and people on edge. “Fentanyl flats,” as the site is call…