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-By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner A striking transformation could be in store at the Oregon State Hospital, according to the facility’s new leadership team, Supervisor Greg Roberts, MSW, and Chief Medical Officer Mark Diamond, DO, who spoke about the future Thursday evening at Oregon Health & Science University. Roberts and Diamond weren’t talking […]
By Jenny Westberg, Contributing Columnist Published in Street Roots, Oct. 29, 2010 In December 1973, a psychiatric breakthrough wiped out all signs and symptoms of mental illness for millions of Americans. It wasn’t a new drug. It was an ex cathedra pronouncement by the American Psychiatric Association, declaring that homosexuality was not, in fact, a […]
From KATU.com, October 29, 2010 Neighbors are reacting after a Lane County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 49-year-old Veneta man Thursday [October 28, 2010]. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to a domestic dispute between Mark Thomas Casterline and his sister at her apartment at 25182 E. Broadway. A sheriff’s office representative said […]
Excellent article by Oregonian newcomer Amanda Waldroupe, published October 20, 2010 Aja Stacy, 14, loves school so much, she would crawl to get there if she had to, she says. A bubbly and headstrong freshman at Troutdale’s Reynolds High School, Aja is enrolled in all honors classes and plays oboe for the school band. In […]
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