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CARRINGTON CLARKE, REPORTER: It’s early Wednesday afternoon and the Portland police bike squad is on the move, patrolling downtown in one of America’s most progressive cities.
AMY NICHOLS, LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER: We'll have to deal with a lot of drug addicts coming in here, like drooling or whatever and screaming at the customers for water. CARRINGTON CLARKE: The rise in popularity and harm caused by fentanyl in the United States is just extraordinary. So we could walk around the neighbourhood probably find ten cans in less than an hour, walk to a store, get the dollar and then go buy fentanyl and that could be enough fentanyl to kill us.
So there's a lot of unknowns right now, because it's early on, I think later this summer, we're going to have a better indication of what that's going to look like.It provided funding for this recovery centre which helped get former addict Breezy clean, 17 years after first getting hooked.BRIONNA BRIGHAM, RECOVERING ADDICT: Yes, it is the first time has been back since detox. It feels really good to be back.
DAVID BAER: We do write people tickets; we give them the drug screening cards. But we're not able to displace these groups of people. They have to voluntarily leave.
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