Editor's Note: KOIN 6 News anchorman Jeff Gianola will retire around Thanksgiving 2025 after more than 40 years as a Portland journalist. In this series, Jeff looks back at some of the most memorable stories he's covered and shared.

This story, which earned a Regional Emmy, originally aired May 18, 2023.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- March 29 was a relatively mild Wednesday in Portland. In a short walk from Mother's Bistro, Chef Lisa Schroeder arrives at a public market. But she's not buying anything at the meth and fentanyl supermarket at SW 4th and Washington.

Portland's public fentanyl market surrounds a vacant building. People pull up in their cars, do a deal, pull out their foil and smoke. Drug dealers and drug users are the visible faces of the human tragedy of addiction.

This fentany

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