Director’s Desk | Kaia Sand launches ‘Better not Backward’ column series exploring next steps two years into Measure 110 with a visit to the Overdose Prevention Society Our conversation began in the dark. Trey Helten had warned me before I walked the mile ...
15 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
Journalists throughout the state worked to bring you the answers in this issue In terms of covering elections, newspapers traditionally sift through expansive pools of candidates (particularly during primaries) and narrow the field to a small group of ‘se ...
4 May 2022 - SR editorial board
OPINION | Domicile Unknown report shows people on the streets die decades before their time For nearly a decade now, Street Roots has published the Domicile Unknown report with Multnomah County and the Multnomah County medical examiner. Named after the ca ...
15 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
The ballot measure would reform Oregon's approach to drug addiction The overdose epidemic, housing crisis, COVID pandemic and policing disparities have many Oregonians eager to find something to be hopeful about. That’s why we’re excited to tell you ...
30 Sep 2020 - Haven Wheelock and Steve Rudman
COMMENTARY | What makes me an addict is that I use drugs against my will, even when I don’t want to My name is Jason, and I am an addict. I am writing this to you from Dorm 11, Bunk 9 at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail. I am here on charges that culmina ...
19 Jul 2019 - Jason Everly
Criminalization is not, and never has been, the answer to a health crisis This week, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an opinion piece in the New York Times in response to the momentum building around safe injection sites for intravenous ...
31 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day Friday, Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. It is a day when we come together to honor the people we have lost because of drug use and to stand committed to reducing the stigma that ...
24 Aug 2018 - Haven Wheelock
COMMENTARY | Four generations of women in my family have sacrificed, struggled, made mistakes and endured. I owe my existence and determination to them. Great-Grandma Irma owned a trailer and the tiny plot it stood on. Over the counter between the kitchen ...
20 Jul 2018 - Dustin Dandliker
COMMENTARY | Dustin Dandliker reflects on people who touched his life in meaningful ways This series is a first-hand account of the struggles and successes of overcoming trauma, mental illness, addiction, homelessness and more. I carry with me my mom. She ...
22 Jun 2018 - Dustin Dandliker
COMMENTARY | Tagging something 'abusive' implies wrongfulness and willfulness "What’s in a name?” Juliet muses from the balcony. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare raises a good point: Most things are not fundament ...
26 May 2016 - Jason Renaud an...