Not All Participants Deserve Medals

Clallam County Watchdog · Feb 1, 2026 · 36m

This week in Sundays with Seegers, county commissioner candidate Jake Seegers takes a hard look at the county’s newly touted “Opioid Gaps Report” and the rush to declare victory on harm reduction. As officials prepare to celebrate declining overdose deaths, Jake examines who funded the report, why it surfaced now, and whether national trends and treatment-first interventions are being miscast as proof that a decade of local policy has worked. From Oregon’s policy reversal to Port Angeles’ Shielding Hope program, the evidence points to a different metric of success: recovery and graduation…