Two years ago, Multnomah County announced its contract with a “nationally recognized” nonprofit to operate its new drug deflection center on Southeast Sandy Boulevard—a place where those caught with ...

Tucson police have sent more than 500 people struggling with opioid addiction to treatment rather than jail over the past year, thanks to a grant-funded county program. The effort, called “deflection, ...

Gov. Wes Moore’s recent interviews are indicative of a new strategy of deflection and disinformation that he and his ...

When Udaya Gammanpila announced the release of his book, In Search of a Mastermind, it was thought that he would make a big revelation. However the whole event proved to be an anti climax. It turned ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The tightening of Multnomah County’s drug deflection program comes amid what District Attorney Nathan Vasquez describes as low participation — and an even lower level of ...

I don’t know how one can describe the Multnomah County drug deflection center’s first year operating results as anything other than an absolute failure and a colossal waste of money, (“With annual ...

Unimpressed by the performance of Multnomah County’s drug-crime deflection center, District Attorney Nathan Vasquez today said he would bring criminal penalties for people who fail to complete the ...

The man was far from his former life when Dallas Area Rapid Transit police encountered him at a bus station on Bryan Street. Once an airline employee, he developed a drinking problem and was now ...

Marion County, which runs two deflection programs, has more people enrolled than any other county in the state with about 80 active participants across its two programs. About 71.5% of the people who ...