More than 300 people walk through downtown Portland calling for an end to state’s addiction crisis
An organizer for the fifth annual Portland Stroll for Recovery questioned the close to 350 men and women gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday morning: “By a display of fingers, how several of you have lost an individual to addiction?” Far more than fifty percent of the crowd lifted their arms superior. The rally and subsequent two-mile wander by downtown Portland, arranged by the statewide coalition Oregon Recovers, was punctuated by private tales of addiction and recovery as very…