I would also encourage submitting a formal complaint to Clallam County. This process requires review by both the County Administrator and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), creating accountability at the operational level. It moves concerns beyond public comments and emails into formal documentation that requires a response and tracking.
The commissioners and Dr. Berry did not respond to questions about the proposed mass spectrometer program or whether the county's stated hiring priorities would have ensured that the most qualified drug-testing technician was selected for the position. Here is today's email to Health Officer Berry and the county commissioners:
Dear Commissioners and Health Officer Berry,
Dr. Berry has accused Clallam County Watchdog of spreading misinformation regarding the county's harm reduction policies. In that email exchange, and in numerous public meetings, concerns have been raised about misinformation, misleading narratives, and public misunderstanding of county programs.
How is the public supposed to separate fact from fiction when their questions go unanswered?
Dr. Berry has declined multiple requests for comment from Clallam County Watchdog. The Board of County Commissioners has ignored hundreds of requests for comment over the years. Some commissioners refuse to participate in town hall Q&A events. At Board of Health meetings, Dr. Berry routinely advises board members not to engage with questions raised during public comment. Meanwhile, residents who attempt to fill in the blanks themselves are often accused of spreading misinformation.
There appears to be a significant disconnect between what public officials say publicly and what is later characterized as misinformation. If citizens cannot obtain answers from the people running these programs, cannot receive responses from elected officials, and cannot get clarification during public meetings, what process are they expected to follow?
More specifically, when public records, county reports, meeting recordings, and official statements appear to conflict with one another, how should residents resolve those discrepancies? If they draw conclusions that county officials disagree with, does that automatically become misinformation?
Residents are not looking for slogans, labels, or accusations. They are looking for answers. If the county believes misinformation is a serious problem, it would seem that the first step toward addressing it is answering questions rather than avoiding them.
I would appreciate a response explaining how members of the public are expected to seek clarification and verify information when the officials responsible for providing that information decline to engage.
What Berry is NOT telling you. True to her position she is presenting the facts in a twisted fashion to make herself look 'as if' she is doing a 'good' job.
CLALLAM COUNTY DEATHS involving ANY opiod, 100,000 residents.
Percent increase, 2024-25 over 2002-04: 300.2%.
Yes, she and her ilk are making it worse. 3 times worse.
But hooray, Berry, you can spot 15 counties that are even worse than you.
Deaths (CC) per 100,00 residents, 2024-2025: 34.35 from 8.58 in 02-04.
And she is celebrating???
That a loser like that can stand up for "50 minutes" and brag about her success is offensive. She huddles with others of a similar ilk and they pat themselves on their scale crusted backs and celebrate that another county is worse then they are...
We are doomed... It's the Berry's of this state that repeat their mistakes.
“those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — George Santayana
Where do the jobs go? To the Berry's and her 'staff'. To the drug death kit makers. NOT to the persons suffering from addiction... Where do businesses go, away... It's a Groundhog Day scenario. Each day, same result...
The Berry's of this state misrepresent 'the past' giving us false data to ensure we slip ever further into this hell hole spiral of opiate deaths.
NO DRUG TREATMENT FACILITY ADVOCATES FOR HARM REDUCTION. Dr. Berry is who she is & not about to change her mode of operation. As a patient it’s her way or the highway & she is not afraid to push her agenda or point to the max. Another words she has no flexibility to consider any other option except what she decides. Dr. Berry uses medicare perimeters & other regulations as a way to manipulate her argument when there are clearly other ways to legally skin a cat. If harm reduction is so successful why aren’t the large & small rehab facilities pushing Dr. Berry’s way to recovery? Berry’s reality is she has the most intelligent brain but no one else does. In 60 years I have run across a few doctors who have been wrong about various treatment.
I won’t be able to attend the BOH meeting today because I am working in Sequim today, but pay close attention to the interview panels recommendations for the vacant position.
I believe, they are not going to hire for the vacant position, instead.. reallocate those funds or use them for additional harm reduction supplies.💁🏻♀️(confusing)
When I hear Dr. Barry define her version of harm reduction, I wonder how it is any different than what a Pimp does? Providing safety and protection for people to do illicit things while never helping them get out of the cycle that makes you money. Hmmmm?
Dr. Barry seems to love data, she mentions it several times. But she did say one thing I would love to see the data on. She said that many of the people living in the tents get up and go to work every day. Really? Is there some proof of that? W2's somewhere? Schedule C's? Form 1065's? or is panhandling now considered a profession?
Stats show a different picture of these persons wanting to work. In most tests of supplying a job to them almost 80 to 90 % did not take the opportunity to to work.
In most cases they would probably take a pay cut because they would lose their freebies. Cmon Dr Berry get your facts straight and stop lying to us.
Excellent thoughts! I had similar thought regarding, the person who lives in the bushes in a tent, goes to work every day? My only thought in Dr. Berry saying this statement could be the person(s) goes out to work by: Stealing or Prostitutions, or Running Drugs.
This is an interesting exchange, and kudos to Mr. Rogers for stepping to the plate and respectfully challenging the status quo. Notwithstanding Dr. Berry's proven poor and incorrect handling of the Covid crisis, which has now been proven with data and "the science," here's my bottom line on harm reduction. Are drugs like fentanyl, opioids, et. al., illegal to possess and distribute? Is taking these illegal drugs illegal? If that is true, then how can any governmental agency justify in any way, shape or form any support of helping people take these illegal drugs? The amount of public resources being spent per capita enabling the use of something that is illegal without consequence is truly staggering. It also sends a subtle message to the public that, hey, if taking illegal drugs will not be punished, why should I worry about following other laws? And what about the general public that has to deal with the junkies and their actions in our towns and neighborhoods? It's an Alice in Wonderland world, where up is down and black is white.
It's incredibly disappointing that someone tasked with public health reacts in the manner that Dr. 🫐 does to a citizen who has a brain and brings valid points to her. She suffers from a "God" complex made worse by three commissioners unable to distill her true value to the community who enable her disastrous positions.
The Wedge...
Vote for someone who has actual compassion and wants a well rounded harm reduction approach.
Thank you, David Rogers, for fighting for your continued recovery, the addicts still struggling, and facing the person responsible for our County's growing drug and homeless problem. For Dr. Berry to dismiss your willingness to have an open discussion about drug addiction solutions is her being derelict in her professional responsibilities. She is being held accountable by a frustrated public, and the public will continue to do so. Keep fighting, David, because a whole community is with you.
As always, Jeff, an informative article that we citizens need to read and hear about.
So she still wants the lane for heroin and heavy opioid use because there was money for it. That money is gone just like the tobacco money. To them its a public trough for a job in the blue pages...and they are ok with it even at the expense of Oxford house and the methadone clinics.
Keep in mind that the people in charge of the party promoting the behavioral health Kevorkian lane kick you off their website for posting a slice of pizza emoji, during the harm reduction debate.
They are oblivious to the post card and now oblivious to the people coming out of the Kevorkian blue page mill. Pretty soon they will be pointing swastika signs at each other.
The system is running on autopilot, prioritizing the preservation of comfortable administrative slots over actual human lives and public safety. Meanwhile they sit in cushioned committee seats playing online Hollywood square gatekeepers and policing emojis, while the 6 corner approved frontline defenses like the Oxford Houses and methadone clinics doing the heavy lifting are starved out or marginalized by a dueling banjo of death.
They have turned a literal life-or-death crisis into a self-serving bureaucratic industry, entirely blind to the wreckage their 'solutions' leave behind." Thanks Mr. Rogers. Good luck and continued success.
You describe the addiction recovery industrial complex. Very lucrative. Almost as lucrative as the homeless industrial complex and the climate change industrial complex.
I have been an analyst for many decades and numerous times I personally infiltrated the so-called "welfare class", the homeless community, and the groups of people who were using illicit drugs at all levels of society, so I could discover and scientifically analyze all of the issues involved. This was/is a deliberate investigation in line with my oath. As I am a COMPLETELY independent and unbiased professional analyst. My work is NOT influenced by any other "outside information" or "opinions" or "funding" from other groups or Individuals, because it is my duty to perform my own independent research, analysts, and conclusions. There is absolutely no doubt that the current government's "harm reduction" program is in fact causing FAR more harm than any positive that may result from it! Most people know that helping and enabling an alcoholic to drink, even just a little bit, "safely", is definitely not going to "reduce" the problem for the alcoholic, or the alcoholic's friends & family, or society. Do "we" encourage and enable an alcoholic or anyone to drink and drive a car through a school zone full of children? Why on earth would "we" encourage and enable an illicit drug user to take all sorts of "mind altering" and incapacitating illicit drugs, to be in our community (who often also drive their cars)? It is very clear from the existing scientific evidence that the same dynamic exists with ALL Individuals with serious addictive health risk behavior. Apparently, some people are failing to understand, or are for some reason intentionally not understanding, that a fast growing number of Individuals in our community are very correctly seeing this same horrific flaw in the "harm reduction" theory after more than 10 years of undeniable evidence of the harm that it has caused, and misconstruing that to assume that there is a concerted effort or agenda to put an end to the "harm reduction" program for some sort of political reasons. This is demonstrably NOT true in any way! I would defy anyone to come up with an articulable gain that anyone could possibly have as a goal for wanting to see an end to the so-called "harm reduction" policy, if it actually worked as advertised~! This fast-growing grass roots community demand for the "harm reduction" program to end, is solely motivated due to the actual harm that more and more Individuals are experiencing specifically because of the pain and suffering it is causing the good folks in our community~! Thank you for your attention on this matter~!
I went to a Board of Health meeting, during the COVID "pandemic" period and was allowed a three minute comment period. I explained that because of the Board decisions made that we now had two health crisis's; COVID and the COVID "vaccines". I was ignored and dismissed. To this day I see mare damage from the injections than the pathogen. The safe and effective claim has indeed proven to be two untruths. Dr. Berry was the tip of the spear that unprecedentedly used mandates to punish people smart enough to not inject the experimental toxins and safer in the public domain and reward those who did inject and were less safe in the public domain. That is an abject failure of the very responsibility she and the Board are in place to address. With all board members being complicit in their health and economic destructive mandates it is no wonder they would create her resolution of praise. My congratulations to David Rogers on his recovery and commentary. His mention of drug user accountability is spot on. Dr. Berry's pride in reducing overdose deaths is the perfect example of her health blindness. What lives have been saved ? Those reduced overdosed deaths remain addicts on our streets. Most neither enjoy nor want their lives. The addicts efforts to end their agony was taken from them by harm reduction.
Thank you for speaking up. Too few are willing to put into words what so many of us live with every day regarding the downstream affects of the covid injections and the policies of that era.
For 5 years, I've tried to interact with the CCBOH with grace, patience, data, and plenty of lived experience, advocating for people in our own county and beyond who are suffering life-altering harm. Or even --at the very least-- asking if CCBOH will ensure that people who are still interested in the shots have full informed consent about age/gender risk/benefit stratification and that there's no functioning safety net. They have so far declined to take action in that area too.
Despite their prior indifference, I'm still willing to work together with CCBOH if they ever will.
(It's not "just me" by the way. We could do something absolutely beautiful in this community if our public health and medical community could pull together and collaborate to acknowledge and help our injured neighbors in a meaningful way. I'm on the advisory board for React19 and we're developing diagnostic and treatment protocols, have support groups, house a library of 4500+ peer reviewed papers, raise funds for need-based medical grants, and push for legislative pathways to care and compensation.)
But that is a conversation that requires nuance and humility, and the willingness to place the value of human life above the currency of politics.
It is a conversation that, so far, no one on the Clallam County Board of Health has been willing to have.
Their response to David Rogers seems very similar, but David, if you see this, I encourage you to keep speaking the truth even if it takes a long time to make headway.
My ongoing hope is that at some point in time, someone on the CCBOH recognizes that their duty is to listen to the community and consider the impacts of their current policies and what their legal and moral obligations are, rather than respond with endless talking points, deflection, or silence.
Although --for now-- the individuals who are part of the systems that cause harm refuse to acknowledge or stop what's happening, ordinary people who are negatively impacted still have agency over our own minds, hearts, and responses.
Ordinary people are not limited in our ability to think critically or live ethically or do right by one another just because those who currently hold power refuse to listen, see, or care.
Dave Rogers you deserve an apology from Dr. Scary Berry. I'm pretty sure she's a nutcase that can't remember the words from her mouth on public records.
She needs to be run out of town for the dirty deeds she does!
Vote Jake Seegers!
I'd love to see accountability if our tax dollars...
Berry lied when she said the Covid vax would prevent transmission of the virus. She knew vaccine approval doesn’t even require showing prevention of transmission. She never apologized, and so she can never be trusted.
Thank you for the letter David. The response is nuts.
I am also a person in long term recovery. The best harm reduction is not using drugs period. I understand folks are using drugs already however incentives to get clean is much more beneficial. I am so grateful I did the cold turkey detox to get off drugs. That experience has been a great motivator to stay off dope. If I had been able to get clean supplies so easy I would be dead now not drug free. Dont get me wrong. I supported syringe exchange programs in the mid 80s to 90s because I was injecting then and AIDS and Hep C were becoming a consequence of my drug use. I got Hep C but survived after years of medical treatment. My husband did not survive. He died from AIDS and Hep C co-infection. I saw way too many people die from drugs and the diseases they had after they got clean. I lived on the streets and couch surfaced for years. I supported my habit by illegal means.
But this is no longer the 80s and 90s. I am defiantly showing my age. These programs have gone way overboard. The amount of clean supplies and variety of supplies is crazy. I get keeping people off needles but encouraging smoking and/or boofing instead. Why not treatment instead of any supplies? Dont wait for them to decide when they are ready. Get them ready by requiring consequences for illegal behavior and hold their feet to the fire.
Half a million dollars to supplies at Harm Reduction Center is crazy. Half million for treatment is a much better resource in my opinion. There are treatment shortages and barriers to get into treatment. Spend money to remove barriers.
I have been trying to help people get off drugs since I got clean. I am willing to speak to them about ways to do it and help them. I have let people sleep on my couch and help them detox. I have been burned and I have had successes. I have driven people to treatment outside this county. I have driven people to the hospital. I have helped them clean abscesses and get antibiotics. The only true way to beat addiction is to change your way of life, ask for help and prepare for some hard hard work. Getting clean is easy. I did it hundreds of times. The real work comes when staying clean for the long haul. And I still work at it on a daily basis. I learned tools of recovery. Lets give recovery tools instead of supplies. Use the money for treatment and aftercare.
Addiction is a terrible fate. For the addict and the families. I am also a family member that helped family into recovery. I had to sit my doctor down and explain to her why I cannot take narcotics for a disability I have. I dont care how long I have been off drugs I cannot take narcotics. I ultimately changed doctors because some doctors dont get it. Now I help my former doctors get some of their patients off drugs by spending time with them, learning their barriers and helping them find options to stay clean. Just say no does not work. Treatment! Treatment! Treatment!
I made it through the board of health meeting you played. What was most amusing to me was hearing those people talk about all the hard work Dr. Berry and her staff was doing through Covid. So…they got to work? And yet they wonder why people were mad, as in the people who were mandated not to work unless they were deemed essential.
Talk about an insult from a bullying government, to be told you aren’t essential, your work isn’t essential, your contributions aren’t essential…oh, but your taxes are essential so make sure to keep paying so government can keep asserting power over the powerless. LOL.
ITS ALL IN INTERPRETATIONS! WHOSE FIGURES DO WE TRUST? Dr. Berry's Response? “Similarly, on the subject of metrics, we have shared many and continue to. I gave a 50 minute presentation on why we practice harm reduction and shared quite a few metrics there”
Gathering and presenting data is subject to who you reference to and how the data is gathered. Some jurisdictions do not report all arrests and offenses, some report partial years, and some withhold certain categories of arrests or offenses. Reporting is voluntary for arrests and offenses. Below is one source:
CLALLAM COUNTY IS WAY AHEAD IN ADOLESCENCE DRUG LAW VIOLATIONS AND SUBSTANCE USE
Risk and Protection Profile for Substance Abuse Prevention in Clallam County January 2026
PAGE 58 Notes: The arrests of adolescents (age 10-17) for drug law violations, per 1,000 adolescents. Drug law violations include all crimes involving sale, manufacturing, and possession of drugs
Problem Outcomes: Substance Use - Arrests, Drug Law Violation
Data Last Updated: 09/16/2025
State 0.6
Counties Like Us 1.20
Clallam County 2.13
PAGE 59 Notes: The adolescents (age 10-17) receiving state-funded alcohol or drug services, per 1,000 adolescents 10-17
Problem Outcomes: Substance Use- Clients Of State-Funded Alcohol or Drug Services
Data Last Updated: 09/16/2025
State 3.38
Counties Like Us 8.53
Clallam County 13.72
PAGE 64 Non-Reporting Police Jurisdictions in Uniform Crime Reports and National Incident-Based Reporting System
Most law enforcement agencies report arrest and offense data to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), which in turn provides data to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This is the source of our data. Some jurisdictions do not report all arrests and offenses, some report partial years, and some withhold certain categories of arrests or offenses. Reporting is voluntary for arrests and offenses.
DANG!!! what an article today. Had to take a couple of breaks. I am at the point listening to the "Dr." is really hard. She sounds like she has a giggle in her voice regarding such a very important life and death conversation. Very very frustrating because it gives the impression of not taking it serious to me.
Good morning,
I would also encourage submitting a formal complaint to Clallam County. This process requires review by both the County Administrator and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), creating accountability at the operational level. It moves concerns beyond public comments and emails into formal documentation that requires a response and tracking.
You can submit a complaint here:
https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/FormCenter/Contact-Forms-4/Submit-a-Complaint-or-Request-Informatio-88
Thank you, Dr. Sarah. Knowing whom to contact to get responses is very helpful.
The commissioners and Dr. Berry did not respond to questions about the proposed mass spectrometer program or whether the county's stated hiring priorities would have ensured that the most qualified drug-testing technician was selected for the position. Here is today's email to Health Officer Berry and the county commissioners:
Dear Commissioners and Health Officer Berry,
Dr. Berry has accused Clallam County Watchdog of spreading misinformation regarding the county's harm reduction policies. In that email exchange, and in numerous public meetings, concerns have been raised about misinformation, misleading narratives, and public misunderstanding of county programs.
How is the public supposed to separate fact from fiction when their questions go unanswered?
Dr. Berry has declined multiple requests for comment from Clallam County Watchdog. The Board of County Commissioners has ignored hundreds of requests for comment over the years. Some commissioners refuse to participate in town hall Q&A events. At Board of Health meetings, Dr. Berry routinely advises board members not to engage with questions raised during public comment. Meanwhile, residents who attempt to fill in the blanks themselves are often accused of spreading misinformation.
There appears to be a significant disconnect between what public officials say publicly and what is later characterized as misinformation. If citizens cannot obtain answers from the people running these programs, cannot receive responses from elected officials, and cannot get clarification during public meetings, what process are they expected to follow?
More specifically, when public records, county reports, meeting recordings, and official statements appear to conflict with one another, how should residents resolve those discrepancies? If they draw conclusions that county officials disagree with, does that automatically become misinformation?
Residents are not looking for slogans, labels, or accusations. They are looking for answers. If the county believes misinformation is a serious problem, it would seem that the first step toward addressing it is answering questions rather than avoiding them.
I would appreciate a response explaining how members of the public are expected to seek clarification and verify information when the officials responsible for providing that information decline to engage.
What Berry is NOT telling you. True to her position she is presenting the facts in a twisted fashion to make herself look 'as if' she is doing a 'good' job.
Go to the web site she advocates, see the facts!
Here you go, from the https://adai.washington.edu/wadata/deaths.htm#showdiv2 website:
CLALLAM COUNTY DEATHS involving ANY opiod, 100,000 residents.
Percent increase, 2024-25 over 2002-04: 300.2%.
Yes, she and her ilk are making it worse. 3 times worse.
But hooray, Berry, you can spot 15 counties that are even worse than you.
Deaths (CC) per 100,00 residents, 2024-2025: 34.35 from 8.58 in 02-04.
And she is celebrating???
That a loser like that can stand up for "50 minutes" and brag about her success is offensive. She huddles with others of a similar ilk and they pat themselves on their scale crusted backs and celebrate that another county is worse then they are...
We are doomed... It's the Berry's of this state that repeat their mistakes.
“those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — George Santayana
Where do the jobs go? To the Berry's and her 'staff'. To the drug death kit makers. NOT to the persons suffering from addiction... Where do businesses go, away... It's a Groundhog Day scenario. Each day, same result...
The Berry's of this state misrepresent 'the past' giving us false data to ensure we slip ever further into this hell hole spiral of opiate deaths.
100%
NO DRUG TREATMENT FACILITY ADVOCATES FOR HARM REDUCTION. Dr. Berry is who she is & not about to change her mode of operation. As a patient it’s her way or the highway & she is not afraid to push her agenda or point to the max. Another words she has no flexibility to consider any other option except what she decides. Dr. Berry uses medicare perimeters & other regulations as a way to manipulate her argument when there are clearly other ways to legally skin a cat. If harm reduction is so successful why aren’t the large & small rehab facilities pushing Dr. Berry’s way to recovery? Berry’s reality is she has the most intelligent brain but no one else does. In 60 years I have run across a few doctors who have been wrong about various treatment.
I won’t be able to attend the BOH meeting today because I am working in Sequim today, but pay close attention to the interview panels recommendations for the vacant position.
that was interesting and confusing.
they were cautious with language.
i am still confused-
I believe, they are not going to hire for the vacant position, instead.. reallocate those funds or use them for additional harm reduction supplies.💁🏻♀️(confusing)
Sometimes it is a mad, mad world in there.
Lots of people showed up!!!
Yes!!🙌🏻
When I hear Dr. Barry define her version of harm reduction, I wonder how it is any different than what a Pimp does? Providing safety and protection for people to do illicit things while never helping them get out of the cycle that makes you money. Hmmmm?
Dr. Barry seems to love data, she mentions it several times. But she did say one thing I would love to see the data on. She said that many of the people living in the tents get up and go to work every day. Really? Is there some proof of that? W2's somewhere? Schedule C's? Form 1065's? or is panhandling now considered a profession?
Which restaurant should I get tested for hepatitis b after I eat.
The pimp would go to jail if caught. She gets a raise for her incompetence
Stats show a different picture of these persons wanting to work. In most tests of supplying a job to them almost 80 to 90 % did not take the opportunity to to work.
In most cases they would probably take a pay cut because they would lose their freebies. Cmon Dr Berry get your facts straight and stop lying to us.
IMO she meant panhandling.
Denise, that got me laughing really hard!
Tools of the trade: Cardboard
Excellent thoughts! I had similar thought regarding, the person who lives in the bushes in a tent, goes to work every day? My only thought in Dr. Berry saying this statement could be the person(s) goes out to work by: Stealing or Prostitutions, or Running Drugs.
This is an interesting exchange, and kudos to Mr. Rogers for stepping to the plate and respectfully challenging the status quo. Notwithstanding Dr. Berry's proven poor and incorrect handling of the Covid crisis, which has now been proven with data and "the science," here's my bottom line on harm reduction. Are drugs like fentanyl, opioids, et. al., illegal to possess and distribute? Is taking these illegal drugs illegal? If that is true, then how can any governmental agency justify in any way, shape or form any support of helping people take these illegal drugs? The amount of public resources being spent per capita enabling the use of something that is illegal without consequence is truly staggering. It also sends a subtle message to the public that, hey, if taking illegal drugs will not be punished, why should I worry about following other laws? And what about the general public that has to deal with the junkies and their actions in our towns and neighborhoods? It's an Alice in Wonderland world, where up is down and black is white.
The Kervorkian's got more assistance than the smokers. They just got a 1-800 number out of the tobacco settlement...
It's incredibly disappointing that someone tasked with public health reacts in the manner that Dr. 🫐 does to a citizen who has a brain and brings valid points to her. She suffers from a "God" complex made worse by three commissioners unable to distill her true value to the community who enable her disastrous positions.
The Wedge...
Vote for someone who has actual compassion and wants a well rounded harm reduction approach.
Vote for Jake Seegers.
“Cold fish” came to mind after reading Dr. 🫐 ‘s response to Mr. Rogers’ thoughtful and respectful letter.
Right! I had to take a break from her response to him. It was awful!
See first comment at top.
So right about the “God” complex. Our Commissioners should hand over their personal medical care to Dr. Berry.
Thank you, David Rogers, for fighting for your continued recovery, the addicts still struggling, and facing the person responsible for our County's growing drug and homeless problem. For Dr. Berry to dismiss your willingness to have an open discussion about drug addiction solutions is her being derelict in her professional responsibilities. She is being held accountable by a frustrated public, and the public will continue to do so. Keep fighting, David, because a whole community is with you.
As always, Jeff, an informative article that we citizens need to read and hear about.
So she still wants the lane for heroin and heavy opioid use because there was money for it. That money is gone just like the tobacco money. To them its a public trough for a job in the blue pages...and they are ok with it even at the expense of Oxford house and the methadone clinics.
Keep in mind that the people in charge of the party promoting the behavioral health Kevorkian lane kick you off their website for posting a slice of pizza emoji, during the harm reduction debate.
They are oblivious to the post card and now oblivious to the people coming out of the Kevorkian blue page mill. Pretty soon they will be pointing swastika signs at each other.
The system is running on autopilot, prioritizing the preservation of comfortable administrative slots over actual human lives and public safety. Meanwhile they sit in cushioned committee seats playing online Hollywood square gatekeepers and policing emojis, while the 6 corner approved frontline defenses like the Oxford Houses and methadone clinics doing the heavy lifting are starved out or marginalized by a dueling banjo of death.
They have turned a literal life-or-death crisis into a self-serving bureaucratic industry, entirely blind to the wreckage their 'solutions' leave behind." Thanks Mr. Rogers. Good luck and continued success.
Two hundred and sixty four thousand a year plus benefits please Alex..
smh
You describe the addiction recovery industrial complex. Very lucrative. Almost as lucrative as the homeless industrial complex and the climate change industrial complex.
those 3 are so very intertwined here
Long story short...
I have been an analyst for many decades and numerous times I personally infiltrated the so-called "welfare class", the homeless community, and the groups of people who were using illicit drugs at all levels of society, so I could discover and scientifically analyze all of the issues involved. This was/is a deliberate investigation in line with my oath. As I am a COMPLETELY independent and unbiased professional analyst. My work is NOT influenced by any other "outside information" or "opinions" or "funding" from other groups or Individuals, because it is my duty to perform my own independent research, analysts, and conclusions. There is absolutely no doubt that the current government's "harm reduction" program is in fact causing FAR more harm than any positive that may result from it! Most people know that helping and enabling an alcoholic to drink, even just a little bit, "safely", is definitely not going to "reduce" the problem for the alcoholic, or the alcoholic's friends & family, or society. Do "we" encourage and enable an alcoholic or anyone to drink and drive a car through a school zone full of children? Why on earth would "we" encourage and enable an illicit drug user to take all sorts of "mind altering" and incapacitating illicit drugs, to be in our community (who often also drive their cars)? It is very clear from the existing scientific evidence that the same dynamic exists with ALL Individuals with serious addictive health risk behavior. Apparently, some people are failing to understand, or are for some reason intentionally not understanding, that a fast growing number of Individuals in our community are very correctly seeing this same horrific flaw in the "harm reduction" theory after more than 10 years of undeniable evidence of the harm that it has caused, and misconstruing that to assume that there is a concerted effort or agenda to put an end to the "harm reduction" program for some sort of political reasons. This is demonstrably NOT true in any way! I would defy anyone to come up with an articulable gain that anyone could possibly have as a goal for wanting to see an end to the so-called "harm reduction" policy, if it actually worked as advertised~! This fast-growing grass roots community demand for the "harm reduction" program to end, is solely motivated due to the actual harm that more and more Individuals are experiencing specifically because of the pain and suffering it is causing the good folks in our community~! Thank you for your attention on this matter~!
Sincerely, Mike
I went to a Board of Health meeting, during the COVID "pandemic" period and was allowed a three minute comment period. I explained that because of the Board decisions made that we now had two health crisis's; COVID and the COVID "vaccines". I was ignored and dismissed. To this day I see mare damage from the injections than the pathogen. The safe and effective claim has indeed proven to be two untruths. Dr. Berry was the tip of the spear that unprecedentedly used mandates to punish people smart enough to not inject the experimental toxins and safer in the public domain and reward those who did inject and were less safe in the public domain. That is an abject failure of the very responsibility she and the Board are in place to address. With all board members being complicit in their health and economic destructive mandates it is no wonder they would create her resolution of praise. My congratulations to David Rogers on his recovery and commentary. His mention of drug user accountability is spot on. Dr. Berry's pride in reducing overdose deaths is the perfect example of her health blindness. What lives have been saved ? Those reduced overdosed deaths remain addicts on our streets. Most neither enjoy nor want their lives. The addicts efforts to end their agony was taken from them by harm reduction.
Thank you for speaking up. Too few are willing to put into words what so many of us live with every day regarding the downstream affects of the covid injections and the policies of that era.
For 5 years, I've tried to interact with the CCBOH with grace, patience, data, and plenty of lived experience, advocating for people in our own county and beyond who are suffering life-altering harm. Or even --at the very least-- asking if CCBOH will ensure that people who are still interested in the shots have full informed consent about age/gender risk/benefit stratification and that there's no functioning safety net. They have so far declined to take action in that area too.
Despite their prior indifference, I'm still willing to work together with CCBOH if they ever will.
(It's not "just me" by the way. We could do something absolutely beautiful in this community if our public health and medical community could pull together and collaborate to acknowledge and help our injured neighbors in a meaningful way. I'm on the advisory board for React19 and we're developing diagnostic and treatment protocols, have support groups, house a library of 4500+ peer reviewed papers, raise funds for need-based medical grants, and push for legislative pathways to care and compensation.)
But that is a conversation that requires nuance and humility, and the willingness to place the value of human life above the currency of politics.
It is a conversation that, so far, no one on the Clallam County Board of Health has been willing to have.
Their response to David Rogers seems very similar, but David, if you see this, I encourage you to keep speaking the truth even if it takes a long time to make headway.
My ongoing hope is that at some point in time, someone on the CCBOH recognizes that their duty is to listen to the community and consider the impacts of their current policies and what their legal and moral obligations are, rather than respond with endless talking points, deflection, or silence.
I would encourage people who care about the vaccine-injured to read Kenny Carmody's substack (https://kennycarmody.substack.com/p/the-silence-is-the-answer) and get involved with React19 (react19.org).
Although --for now-- the individuals who are part of the systems that cause harm refuse to acknowledge or stop what's happening, ordinary people who are negatively impacted still have agency over our own minds, hearts, and responses.
Ordinary people are not limited in our ability to think critically or live ethically or do right by one another just because those who currently hold power refuse to listen, see, or care.
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
Wow, great night at the debate!
Dave Rogers you deserve an apology from Dr. Scary Berry. I'm pretty sure she's a nutcase that can't remember the words from her mouth on public records.
She needs to be run out of town for the dirty deeds she does!
Vote Jake Seegers!
I'd love to see accountability if our tax dollars...
Thanks all and have a great day.
VOTE THE WEDGE and COMMON SENCE VOTE JAKE
Berry lied when she said the Covid vax would prevent transmission of the virus. She knew vaccine approval doesn’t even require showing prevention of transmission. She never apologized, and so she can never be trusted.
For 120 plus grand a year..you click a jackboot.
(The phrase "click your jackboots" typically implies rigid, forceful obedience, authoritarian control, or a robotic march...)
Thank you John!!! I requested a glossary about two years ago so I could understand your comments with Eric and you have come through.
JJW, not that easy, John's Worthingtonese is sometimes way above my head. It's an art unto itself! Love you John ; )
Wow! Just Wow!
Thank you for the letter David. The response is nuts.
I am also a person in long term recovery. The best harm reduction is not using drugs period. I understand folks are using drugs already however incentives to get clean is much more beneficial. I am so grateful I did the cold turkey detox to get off drugs. That experience has been a great motivator to stay off dope. If I had been able to get clean supplies so easy I would be dead now not drug free. Dont get me wrong. I supported syringe exchange programs in the mid 80s to 90s because I was injecting then and AIDS and Hep C were becoming a consequence of my drug use. I got Hep C but survived after years of medical treatment. My husband did not survive. He died from AIDS and Hep C co-infection. I saw way too many people die from drugs and the diseases they had after they got clean. I lived on the streets and couch surfaced for years. I supported my habit by illegal means.
But this is no longer the 80s and 90s. I am defiantly showing my age. These programs have gone way overboard. The amount of clean supplies and variety of supplies is crazy. I get keeping people off needles but encouraging smoking and/or boofing instead. Why not treatment instead of any supplies? Dont wait for them to decide when they are ready. Get them ready by requiring consequences for illegal behavior and hold their feet to the fire.
Half a million dollars to supplies at Harm Reduction Center is crazy. Half million for treatment is a much better resource in my opinion. There are treatment shortages and barriers to get into treatment. Spend money to remove barriers.
I have been trying to help people get off drugs since I got clean. I am willing to speak to them about ways to do it and help them. I have let people sleep on my couch and help them detox. I have been burned and I have had successes. I have driven people to treatment outside this county. I have driven people to the hospital. I have helped them clean abscesses and get antibiotics. The only true way to beat addiction is to change your way of life, ask for help and prepare for some hard hard work. Getting clean is easy. I did it hundreds of times. The real work comes when staying clean for the long haul. And I still work at it on a daily basis. I learned tools of recovery. Lets give recovery tools instead of supplies. Use the money for treatment and aftercare.
Addiction is a terrible fate. For the addict and the families. I am also a family member that helped family into recovery. I had to sit my doctor down and explain to her why I cannot take narcotics for a disability I have. I dont care how long I have been off drugs I cannot take narcotics. I ultimately changed doctors because some doctors dont get it. Now I help my former doctors get some of their patients off drugs by spending time with them, learning their barriers and helping them find options to stay clean. Just say no does not work. Treatment! Treatment! Treatment!
WE CAN DO BETTER!!!
just a tax paying...thank you for this. I ask, who hasn't been touched by drug abuse in some form or another? Nobody I know, including myself.
I made it through the board of health meeting you played. What was most amusing to me was hearing those people talk about all the hard work Dr. Berry and her staff was doing through Covid. So…they got to work? And yet they wonder why people were mad, as in the people who were mandated not to work unless they were deemed essential.
Talk about an insult from a bullying government, to be told you aren’t essential, your work isn’t essential, your contributions aren’t essential…oh, but your taxes are essential so make sure to keep paying so government can keep asserting power over the powerless. LOL.
ITS ALL IN INTERPRETATIONS! WHOSE FIGURES DO WE TRUST? Dr. Berry's Response? “Similarly, on the subject of metrics, we have shared many and continue to. I gave a 50 minute presentation on why we practice harm reduction and shared quite a few metrics there”
Gathering and presenting data is subject to who you reference to and how the data is gathered. Some jurisdictions do not report all arrests and offenses, some report partial years, and some withhold certain categories of arrests or offenses. Reporting is voluntary for arrests and offenses. Below is one source:
CLALLAM COUNTY IS WAY AHEAD IN ADOLESCENCE DRUG LAW VIOLATIONS AND SUBSTANCE USE
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/rda/riskprofiles/research-4.47-clallam.pdf
Risk and Protection Profile for Substance Abuse Prevention in Clallam County January 2026
PAGE 58 Notes: The arrests of adolescents (age 10-17) for drug law violations, per 1,000 adolescents. Drug law violations include all crimes involving sale, manufacturing, and possession of drugs
Problem Outcomes: Substance Use - Arrests, Drug Law Violation
Data Last Updated: 09/16/2025
State 0.6
Counties Like Us 1.20
Clallam County 2.13
PAGE 59 Notes: The adolescents (age 10-17) receiving state-funded alcohol or drug services, per 1,000 adolescents 10-17
Problem Outcomes: Substance Use- Clients Of State-Funded Alcohol or Drug Services
Data Last Updated: 09/16/2025
State 3.38
Counties Like Us 8.53
Clallam County 13.72
PAGE 64 Non-Reporting Police Jurisdictions in Uniform Crime Reports and National Incident-Based Reporting System
Most law enforcement agencies report arrest and offense data to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), which in turn provides data to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This is the source of our data. Some jurisdictions do not report all arrests and offenses, some report partial years, and some withhold certain categories of arrests or offenses. Reporting is voluntary for arrests and offenses.
DANG!!! what an article today. Had to take a couple of breaks. I am at the point listening to the "Dr." is really hard. She sounds like she has a giggle in her voice regarding such a very important life and death conversation. Very very frustrating because it gives the impression of not taking it serious to me.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE 5/19 meeting. You'll lose your ever loving mind listening to her.
Thanks for the warning. Today just did me in listening to her. Won't even get into the email response to David Rogers.