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Month: November 2014

Price of Addiction: Is this newly approved pain pill actually smarter?

November 21, 2014
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Portland Business Journal, Nov. 21, 2014 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Thursday approved a “smart” opioid prescription painkiller that is supposed to be more difficult to abuse. Hysingla ER is an extended-release hydrocodone tablet that’s difficult to crush, break or dissolve, and therefore, harder to snort or inject. The approval comes at a […]

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Case Western researcher goes inside an Oregon prison, learning what works and what doesn’t for inmates with mental illness

November 5, 2014
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Science Codex, Oct. 27, 2014 Case Western Reserve University mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness. What he found, through 430 hours of prison observations and interviews, is that inmates were treated humanely and security was […]

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Preparing for postpartum depression means having a plan

November 4, 2014
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By Kate Rope, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2014 I knew from the beginning that I had a good shot at postpartum depression if I gave birth again. My first bout with crippling postpartum anxiety propelled me into a career of writing about maternal mental health, so I knew my history increased my odds. […]

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Public’s hate and fear on display in search engine’s “autocomplete” feature

November 3, 2014
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What does stigma look like? This series uses a search engine’s autocomplete feature to highlight common opinions on people with mental illnesses. The autocomplete results show how mental illnesses are commonly associated with violence and crime, and reveal horrifying opinions like “schizophrenics should be killed.”

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De-construction of the Mark Hatfield ADFC building in 1930

November 2, 2014
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A central commercial and residential area of downtown Portland, called over the years “Skid Road” or as booster Bill Naito renamed it “Old Town,” is generally measured by the Willamette River to the East, the railway yard to the West – demolished in the 2000s and replaced with condominium housing for the affluent called, again […]

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Portland City Council should rebuild community trust by championing mental-health crisis center

November 1, 2014
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From the Oregonian, October 31, 2014 The word “trust” kept coming up in a Portland City Council hearing last week, but none of the commissioners should feel flattered. Speaker after speaker addressed the city council, pleading with them not to appeal a federal judge’s authority over the city’s police-reforms settlement. For too long, they said, the […]

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Police Reform Liaison Won’t Be Chosen Until November 12—With Some Twists Potentially In Store

November 1, 2014
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From the Portland Mercury, October 30, 2014 There was some talk during a Portland City Council hearing yesterday that commissioners might fulfill a major part of the city’s police reform deal with the feds—choosing an independent “compliance officer/community liaison”—as soon as next week. Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who’s been running point on the hiring process, said […]

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