WTF? They're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and people can't get treatment, even without more people actually trying to.
Oregon was also the worst state for drug addiction treatment access in 2020, with 18% of people unable to get access to treatment, up from close to 9% in 2019, according to the survey.
This is how machines operate, and why they are sucessful. The money spent went to machine friendly business and provides votes to keep the machine in power. Portland is just doing Chicago 101.
Privatizing your choices and socializing the consequences, hoping to have Uncle Sam (or one of his junior cousins) there to clean up after you is always a disaster.