Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
After two years of development, including multiple postings each day and multiple administrators, we gained 2950 supporters on Facebook. In six months on Twitter we have 5800 – twice as many. The number of our Facebook supporters has stabilized but the Mental Health Association of Portland gains 100 new supporters each week on Twitter. In […]
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 29, 2013 This month, President Barack Obama said it again. In his speech on new gun control measures, Mr. Obama repeated the catchphrase of mental health advocates: “We acknowledge that someone with a mental illness is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.” […]
By Dan Tilkin, KATU News, Jan. 30, 2013 After KATU’s coverage of a cluster of seven teen suicides in the town of Battle Ground, the discussion about suicide has branched out to deal with the issue in communities across the area. In the town of La Grande, Ore. two children in the last three months […]
By Lisa Loving, The Skanner News, Jan. 29, 2013 The 7th Annual Portland Youth Summit, coming up Saturday, Feb. 9, at Portland State University Smith Memorial Union, brings a focus on physical and mental wellness with the theme, “Be Healthy or Die Trying.” The not-to-be-missed youth talent show Saturday at 6:30 p.m. is hosted by […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Jan. 23, 2013 A lot of people in City Hall have interacted with police, but Baruti Artharee may be the only one who can say he’s had the business end of a cop’s gun pressed against his head. That was a long time ago, in Artharee’s hometown of Compton, Calif. […]
The Lane County DA says the senate bills would only affect the most extreme criminal cases. However, typical civil commitments for non-Measure 11 offenders would still go from six months to two years. The hospital director could not release a patient who is cured or no longer dangerous without a judge’s say-so. And patients would […]
By Elyn R. Saks, The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2013 Thirty years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a day room […]
From the Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 2013 Journal entries penned a year before Rachel Rice‘s death tell the tale of a loving mother struggling with serious mental illness, and of a failed mental health care system, her daughter says. “Many unfortunate local events have stemmed from mental illness, and especially from lack of care,” […]
James Chasse, a shy and gentle man with schizophrenia, was tackled by three police officers in front of dozens of eyewitnesses on a downtown street corner in Northwest Portland in September 2006. He was not suspected of a crime, nor had he committed one, but nonetheless he suffered 17 broken ribs, a separated shoulder, a […]
Here’s an Abbott Labs postcard to Dr. James Baxter of the Oregon State Hospital, from the North Pole, exclaiming the virtues of their Sodium Pentothal. (Sodium Pentothal, also known as sodium thiopental, is a Schedule III rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate and was routinely abused by both doctors and patients. Abbott ceased to manufacture it in 2004. […]
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