The Oregon legislature is meeting right now and there's a bill that has been put forth by our governor that is specifically related to opioids. One of the primary points in this bill is to treat substance use disorder as a chronic disease. This means that even if people get in and get rescued with naloxone, and even if they're in rehab or substance use disorder treatment for awhile—people do relapse—rather than saying, “You're off the bandwagon, you now need to start at square one,” we're saying it's much like blood pressure or diabetes or even smoking. People who want to stop smoking need to do so several times.
I think viewing the end-user, if you will, as somebody who has a chronic physical disease.... This is not a moral failing, but how do you get them into treatment? Even if something happens with that—like I said, they fall off the bandwagon or start using—it may take them several tries before they get there. That's the piece we're focusing on with the end-user, to really decriminalize the behaviour and treat it as a medical condition.