Short Read of the Week for June 24, 2021
The articles we chose to recommend in this morning’s excellent Short Read of the Week discussion both had to do with Oregon’s responses to mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Our first choice highlighted a solution that is gaining national attention and praise:
Calling mental health workers, not police, to deal with mental health crisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/mental-health-workers-not-police/2021/06/18/bf250938-c937-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html
[our copy here]
Our second choice points to the need for more attention and resources devoted to this problem, now that measure 110 has passed:
Oregon’s pioneering drug decriminalization experiment is now facing the hard test
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/19/oregon-s-pioneering-drug-decriminalization-experiment-is-now-facing-the-hard-test/
[our copy here]
Read and share. And please join us next week!