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Oregon lawmakers and providers who serve people with drug and alcohol addictions have a common goal: making the state’s decriminalization drug law work.

Under current law, putting drugs in someone’s drink without their consent isn’t a crime in Montana.

The total number of people who have died from fentanyl overdose in Montana is unknown, but the state crime lab has been able to confirm 74 deaths caused by fentanyl in 2022.

A bill introduced into the Montana House of Representatives Friday would criminalize the act of roofying someone, or causing them to unknowingly ingest date rape drugs, regardless of if the drugged victim is sexually assaulted or not.

House Speaker McCarthy and a handful of Republican freshmen traveled to the Mexico border where they blamed the Biden administration for the fentanyl crisis.

Idaho has received more than $26 million in opioid settlement funds, according to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.