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		<title>PSRB executive director Mary Claire Buckley resigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, June 18, 2013 The executive director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board has resigned. Mary Claire Buckley&#8216;s resignation is effective as of Aug. 15, board chairwoman Kate Lieber said at the board&#8217;s meeting Tuesday evening. The terms were not released. Buckley has been on paid administrative leave since May 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Senator makes Oregon Medicaid prescriber data available</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abilify]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Westberg, June 17, 2013 Who are the state’s top prescription writers for widely abused drugs like Oxycontin and Xanax? How much does Oregon’s Medicaid  program pay for expensive mental health drugs like Seroquel and Zyprexa? The data obtained by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) may not provide every answer about Oregon clinicians’ prescribing practices, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: End stigma, bring mental illness &#8216;out of the shadows&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19460</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nedra Pickler, The Associated Press, June 3, 2013 President Barack Obama on Monday called for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue &#8220;out of the shadows.&#8221; Speaking at the opening session of a White House conference on mental health, the president said his goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program restores gun rights to some Oregonians with a mental health history</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19455</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnie Roblan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian, June 11, 2013 In 2009, lawmakers crafted a way to help the estimated 29,000 people whose mental health histories disqualify them under federal law from buying firearms in Oregon: a formal mechanism to ask for their gun rights back. Four years later, with a two-year budget of $576,184 and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPB charts progress on 80 reforms sought by Justice Department, but some items notably absent</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19450</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, June 11, 2013 The Portland Police Bureau Tuesday released a matrix showing how it is tracking the adoption of 80 reforms sought by federal justice officials after a scathing inquiry last year into police use of force against people with mental illness. READ &#8211; PPB&#8217;s 80-item matrix (PDF, 104KB) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biennial homeless count finds 5% increase on Portland&#8217;s streets and in shelters</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19442</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Oregonian, June 14, 2013 The number of people who are homeless has increased 5 percent over the past two years, &#8220;despite our community&#8217;s continued investment in strategies to end homelessness,&#8221; according to the 2013 point-in-time homeless count, released Friday (6/14/2013). The biennial count gives a snapshot of the city&#8217;s homeless population. Outreach workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Boy: Documentary Film Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse, the feature-length film by Portland documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, has signed with Circus Road Films of Los Angeles for representation. The film screened to a sold-out audience at the Portland International Film Festival in February, and was watched by thousands in several week run at three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author charts Oregon State Hospital&#8217;s history back to 1843</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Salem Statesman Journal, June 7, 2013 Roseburg-area author Diane L. Goeres-Gardner has figured out her niche: “I write about things no one has written about.” Hangings in Oregon history? Check. Women criminals? Check. And now, “Inside Oregon State Hospital: A History of Tragedy and Triumph.” Order online from Powell&#8217;s Bookstore. The 334-page book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation stalls in DOJ settlement negotiations</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19372</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, June 7, 2013 Federal prosecutors and city attorneys have reached an impasse with the Portland police union on reforms that should be made by the police bureau to address a scathing federal inquiry that found officers use excessive force against people with mental illness. &#8220;It&#8217;s certainly disappointing that we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Mental Health Treatment Saves Heartache, Cash</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19370</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the East Oregonian, June 8, 2013 Treating mental illness early could prevent anguish and heartbreak for millions — and save the government big money. That’s what mental health experts have been saying for years and now it seems federal and state officials are tuning in. President Obama included $235 million in his budget to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds, City unable to reach agreement with police union on police reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19362</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Oregonian, June 8, 2013 [Eds. Note - Surprise, surprise.] Federal prosecutors and city attorneys have reached an impasse with the Portland police union on reforms that should be made by the police bureau to address a scathing federal inquiry that found officers use excessive force against people with mental illness. &#8220;It&#8217;s certainly disappointing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PANDAS puzzle: Strep, OCD &#8211; and violence?</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19342</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grant Acord]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, June 7, 2013 Could a case of strep throat turn your child from a normal, happy kid to a potential killer? It&#8217;s the stuff of parental nightmares, almost too bizarre to believe. But for Marianne Fox, whose 17-year-old son, Grant Acord, now stands accused of planning a murderous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After suicide of 15-year-old girl, city ponders barriers on Vista Bridge</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19337</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Hales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Stabler, The Oregonian, June 7, 2013 A 15-year-old Beaverton girl jumped to her death from Vista Bridge on Wednesday, the third suicide from the historic span this year. That equals the highest number of Vista Bridge suicides in any year in the past decade. The 1926 bridge, which spans MAX tracks and busy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hales metes out bureau assignments, keeps police for himself</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19328</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Fritz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Hales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan Kost, The Oregonian, June 3, 2013 After months of keeping all of the city&#8217;s bureaus for himself, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales reassigned them late Monday, doling out major assignments to every commissioner while scrambling them considerably from where they were before he took office. With the budget approved last Wednesday, Hales was finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescription drug deaths fall in Oregon, but heroin deaths still rising</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/?p=19323</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, June 4, 2013 Every year about this time, Dr. Karen Gunson, the Oregon state medical examiner, and her colleagues tally up drug-related deaths in the state. And each year, Gunson sees trends in the numbers. For 2012, Gunson said, she saw that the ages of victims of heroin overdoses were [...]]]></description>
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