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Dependency on alcohol, opiates, marijuana, etc. substance abuse
Paige Matthews, Guest column in Salem Statesmen Journal – September 7, 2018 Paige Matthews, MA, NCC, is a co-occurring therapist at Bridgeway Recovery Services in Salem. A co-Occurring therapist provides individual and group counseling for people with co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders. Matthews specializes in LGBTQ+ substance use and mental health counseling. Reach her […]
Annual gathering held at Esther Short Park in Vancouver Columbian, September 3, 2018 11:57 a.m.: The last of the crowd packed onto the Interstate 5 Bridge on Monday, trading high-fives with volunteers as people stretched from the north bank to the south bank of the Columbia River. 11:59 a.m.: Hundreds of adults, children and pets […]
OPB Radio – July 25, 2018 We don’t usually celebrate failure in the United States, but the truth is that success often stems from it. Few people understand that better than “peer support specialists,” counselors who struggled with drugs, alcoholism or mental illness, but eventually rebuilt their lives and now work to help others do the same. Melinda Borgman said […]
OP ED – by Jason Renaud Published in the Portland Tribune – May 29, 2018 As Oregon – and the nation – flounder to find solutions for addiction, gadflys and politicians are seeking public funding to watch addicts shoot heroin. There are times, and situations, which cause addicts to consider seeking treatment. We call these […]
Gizmodo.com – April 25, 2018 Over the past few years, a hospital in Portland, Oregon has dramatically shifted its approach to treating patients with substance use disorders, including opioid addiction. And since then, the hospital has undergone a “sea change” in the way its medical staff think about and address addiction, according to a study […]
Portland Tribune – April 15, 2018 Officials from Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah counties gathered at Marylhurst University Friday afternoon for a Tri-County summit aimed at sharing strategies and coordinating inter-agency efforts to combat the opioid crisis. A panel of county officials and an audience of roughly 150 people listened to a series of talks from […]
By Brenton Gicker – for The Register-Guard – SEPT. 24, 2017 Brenton Gicker is a registered nurse and emergency medical technician who lives and works in Eugene – and a member of the Mental Health Association of Portland’s Advocacy Council. Any day of the week, one can find news stories describing the plague of addiction […]
Libby Stuyt, MD spoke at the Oregon Health Forum with Drs. Esther Choo of OHSU and Katrina Hedberg who is the State Epidemiologist and State Health Officer at the Oregon Public Health Division, and at the Oregon Law & Mental Health Conference in June 2017 on the unintended consequences of marijuana legalization. Stuyt is an […]
Alcohol, heroin and many other drugs can have HARD consequences – jails, institutions and death. Marijuana addiction is different. Marijuana addiction has SOFT consequences – lost potential, missed opportunities, limited relationships, failed projects, stunted emotional development. Different, sometimes obscure consequences, but no less real. Some people want to stop using pot. But getting effective help […]
Oregon DOJ: No Charges For Bend Officer Who Fatally Shot Michael Jacques OPB.org – July 11, 2017 Investigators with Oregon’s Department of Justice released a report Tuesday about an officer-involved shooting in Bend. They found there was not enough evidence to criminally prosecute the officer. Bend police Officer Scott Schaier fatally shot Michael Tyler Jacques […]
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