Portland drug users are getting free supplies, whether Multnomah County distributes them or not

For Portland drug users who know where to look, it’s even easier to find free tin foil and straws than it is to find fentanyl.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The fingerprints of ongoing addiction are hard to miss in downtown Portland.

“The blues aren’t strong enough for me anymore,” said one man. He’s turned to smoking powdered fentanyl instead of the ubiquitous blue faux-oxycodone pills, the ones usually stamped with “M-30.”

Tools to smoke this deadly drug, it turns out, are just as accessible as the drug itself — more so, perhaps, because they come free of charge.

“There’s the exchange and then

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