Measure 110 has plunged Oregon into crisis — a crisis of drug addiction, crime and homelessness that cannot continue if we hope to make Oregon the best state to live and work.

While the majority party watches in futility as these problems worsen, House Republicans have offered solutions.

My colleagues and I have put forward policy answers that are rooted in good health, accountability, responsible government decision making and common sense. For example, we believe the law must have a mechanism to get addicts off the streets and into treatment.

We believe that the most dangerous substances — fentanyl, meth and heroin — cannot continue to flood our state without consequences. And we believe that counties must have adequate funding to address acute needs, a promise made and broken by Measure 110’s proponents.

House Republicans believe that decline is a choice Oregon is making each day the horrendous policy in Measure 110 remains in place.

It is unfortunate that our colleagues in the majority do not feel the same way. We wrote to Democrats Gov. Tina Kotek, House Speaker Dan Rayfield and Senate President Rob Wagner with our ideas and a commitment to work across the aisle to see that solutions are implemented. Our gesture was met with silence and snark. None of them responded to our letter while Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber rushed to the press to declare she has no “magic wand” with which to fix the problems and called our ideas “half baked.”

Well, we don’t need a magic wand to fix Measure 110. We need only to implement the so-called “half baked” policy that Republicans and the people of Oregon themselves have called for.

In a survey by the Lewis and Clark Law School, 76% of respondents said they believe in criminal penalties for people who possess fentanyl, meth and heroin. The Republican plan supports that policy prescription.

Seventy-seven percent of respondents in the same survey said treatment should be required of people arrested multiple times for possession of those lethal drugs. Again, Republicans stand with the people.

And 86% want public use of drugs banned consistent with regulations for alcohol and cannabis. Republicans are with the people on this too, because the open-air drug markets are dangerous to all.

Only 2% of respondents believe that Measure 110 has been successful. As usual, Democrats in the majority are putting the interests of the most radical elements of progressive politics — and the special interests who fund them — ahead of the clear will of the people. They’d rather offer nothing or insults than address Oregonians’ concerns.

Oregon needs answers for Measure 110’s failures. It doesn’t have to be the Republican answer or the Democrat answer, but to this point there can be no doubt that Republicans have been the only ones to try to fix the crises of addiction, crime and homelessness that plague our state.

It is time for Democrats to put partisanship aside and work with us. The state can no longer afford to suffer under the majority’s inaction.