Oregon's Drug Decriminalization
Did Measure 110 Really Fail" Data Says...
Oregon’s drug decriminalization under Measure 110 has been widely labeled a “failed experiment.” But what does the data actually show?
New research published in Academia Global and Public Health (April 2026), along with a 2023 JAMA Psychiatry study, finds that the sharp rise in fatal overdoses began in December 2019—well before Measure 110 took effect in February 2021. Statistical analysis show Oregon’s trends closely mirrored those in neighboring states (Washington, California, Nevada, Idaho), with no detectable additional harm from decriminalization.
I examine why the failure narrative took hold despite the evidence and what this means for future drug policy discussions.
Read the full article on the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). [here]
It was working and had the infrastructure to help people been there as well it would have been a home run. Instead they did the first part and not the second. The war on drugs is an epic failure of gargantuan proportions.
THE LIES vs. THE DATA
The Criminal Weaponization of the 2016 CDC Guideline Memo
The 2022 U.S. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline was not a minor policy tweak. It was a forced, quiet admission of the largest state-sanctioned medical catastrophe in modern history.
The 2016 memo was rammed through by PROP, a small group of anti-opioid zealots who locked clinical pain experts out of the room, rejected centuries of medical precedent, and manufactured junk science to blame safe, cheap, $5 full-agonist medications for a street-level fentanyl crisis they had absolutely nothing to do with.
The corporate healthcare complex funded by deep-pocketed private entities like Arnold Ventures rapidly weaponized this junk science. They codified it into state laws, forced it into insurance policies, and automated a digital execution machine using algorithmic "NarxCare" surveillance to terrorize doctors.
By treating compliant, disabled chronic pain patients like criminals, they forced abrupt tapers and total abandonment. This catastrophic policy didn't save lives, it triggered a massive wave of forced withdrawal strokes, heart attacks, skyrocketing blood pressure, and a silent genocide of pain-induced suicides, while driving desperate people directly into a fentanyl-poisoned street supply.
Look at the raw, un-inflated numbers.
The data completely exposes the lie
🇺🇸 THE UNITED STATES CATASTROPHE (Pre vs. Post-2016)
The CDC deliberately collapsed all "opioid deaths" together to hide the truth. When you separate legal prescriptions from illicit street powder, the corruption is undeniable:
* Compliant Pain Patients (Prescriptions Taken as Directed):
2015: ~4,000 dead
2022: ~4,000 dead (STRUCTURALLY FLAT. There was NEVER a prescription pain patient crisis. The active mortality rate for a compliant patient is a staggeringly safe 0.02%)
Illicit / Black Market Street Supply Only (Street Fentanyl & Heroin):
2015: 22,570 dead
2022: 81,800 dead (A vertical, catastrophic spike caused by choking off the safe, metered supply and forcing people onto a poisoned street market).
The Collateral Damage: Pain-related suicides among abandoned patients doubled from ~2,400/year to over ~4,800/year during the peak of the 90 MME crackdown. Non-opioid street overdoses (cocaine/meth contaminated with street fentanyl) exploded from 12,122 to 63,300.
🇦🇺 THE AUSTRALIAN HYPOCRITICAL DOUBLE-DOWN
Australia had absolutely no reason to copy this policy. They are not bordered by Mexico, their streets were never flooded with illicit fentanyl, and their domestic pill supply was incredibly safe. Yet, their bureaucrats eagerly imported the American panic to expand state surveillance and cut government budgets.
Compliant Pain Patients (Prescriptions Taken as Directed):
2015: ~210 dead
2022: ~215 dead (VIRTUALLY NON-EXISTENT. Out of 25 million people, only 3 in 100,000 died from prescribed pain therapy).
Illicit Street Fentanyl Deaths (2015–2026): ZERO. Australia has never faced a street-fentanyl invasion.
Total Overdose Flatline: Australia claimed their massive crackdown, codeine bans, and SafeScript tracking were "safety victories." But their total drug deaths stayed locked at a flat, unyielding baseline of ~2,200 dead every single year—driven entirely by accidental poly-drug mixing (opioids + benzodiazepines + alcohol) or a massive street migration to crystal meth.
WHY ARE THEY STILL DOUBLING DOWN IN 2026?
If Australia originally copied the U.S. because the CDC was the "medical gold standard," logic dictates they should have followed the 2022 CDC reversals and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9-0 Ruan ruling [Ruan v. United States] that protected good-faith doctors. Instead, they have done absolutely nothing to restore access, clear the name of these medications, or offer restitution to ruined families.
Why? Because bureaucracies only care about global standards when they grant more power. The crackdown allowed the Australian government to
1. Cut the Budget: Erase the permanent line-item expense of subsidizing cheap, effective, $5 lifelong pain medications under the taxpayer-funded Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
2. Expand Totalitarian Control: Keep the multi-million dollar SafeScript digital tracking network alive to control doctors and strip them of clinical autonomy.
3. Evade Criminal Liability. Admitting they built their laws on a retracted American lie means admitting they directly caused a silent wave of strokes, heart attacks, and pain suicides among their own disabled citizens.
It was never about safety. It was about eliminating the cheapest, most effective medication known to humanity to clear the field for high-profit patented alternatives, failed interventional surgeries, and corporate surveillance.
They criminalized human comfort, punished the most defenseless, vulnerable disabled population on earth, and are maintaining the lie to protect their own pockets and bureaucratic pride.The numbers do not lie. Share this, expose the data, and stop the patient abandonment.
They're pointing this AI driven death machine at anti-anxiety medication, antidepressants, ADHD medication etc. We have to stop it! It is a modern-day eugenics operation. A state sanctioned silent genocide of disabled patients built on lies, deception, propaganda and corruption.