Month: December 2020

Admission delay at Oregon State Hospital breaks court order – 3 articles

December 31, 2020
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From the Portland Tribune, December 30 2020 The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a Washington County ruling regarding the lack of speedy admissions to the hospital for those unfit to stand trial. The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld a 2019 ruling that found the state psychiatric hospital in contempt for failing to quickly admit […]

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Why we don’t use the term “behavioral health”

December 2, 2020
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From the board of the Mental Health Association of Portland Recently the SAMHSA has begun requiring grantees to use the term behavioral health for a bucket of illnesses and disorders. It’s an inaccurate term which diminishes black-letter science-based public health decisions going back fifty years.  The term appeared first in 1992 in the New York […]

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