Portland People’s Outreach Project is second in the nation to offer clean pipes to drug users, creating a place where users can be the best person they can be
By EMILY GREEN, Street Roots, Portland
In the back room of an anarchist bookstore in North Portland, past a rack of zines and a chalkboard list of upcoming punk shows, volunteers with the Portland People’s Outreach Project (PPOP) set up shop each Saturday afternoon.
On Friday evenings, they make rounds on their bicycles, making deliveries to people sleeping under bridges downtown and to drug users hanging out in East Portland. ...