Ellen Wirshup, a Portland bar vet with almost a decade in the industry, had been sober for more than a year when she discovered her friend had died of an overdose. He wasn’t the first — a number of her friends had died of unintentional overdoses over the past few years — but she didn’t know this friend was using.
In 2020, more than 18 percent of Oregonians 12 and older had a substance use disorder, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health; that means the state had the second-highest addiction rate in the country that year. The same survey indicates that Oregon has the
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