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The Oregon Health Authority is pleased to announce the appointment of 21 members to serve on a new Oversight and Accountability Council (OAC) to oversee the implementation of Measure 110, the Drug Treatment and Recovery Act. The appointees represent a wide variety of communities and perspectives, in keeping with OHA’s mission to expand health equity […]
Discharged Portland patient, found handcuffed and shivering in ambulance bay, plans to sue Unity psychiatric hospital Oregonian – November 23, 2020 An attorney for a man ordered out of Portland’s psychiatric hospital a year ago and left handcuffed in the ambulance bay while police were called has filed a notice of intent to sue Unity […]
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 […]
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 […]
Full report is here – Analysis of Oregon’s Publicly Funded Substance Abuse Treatment System: Report and Findings for Senate Bill 1041 (PDF) Oregon Criminal Justice Commission – September 2019 Summary of Public Expenditure on Substance Abuse Treatment Services In the 2017-19 biennium, Oregon will spend an estimated $472M ($236M/year) on substance abuse prevention and treatment-related […]
The Mental Health Association of Portland, one of Oregon’s most active advocates for people with mental illness, addiction, and alcoholism urges a NO vote on state Ballot Measure 110. The organization has never taken a position on a statewide ballot measure before. DOWNLOAD – the text of this opposition message (PDF) The ballot measure is […]
Clancy I – AA History #1, Stateline Retreat 2009 Clancy I – AA History #2, Stateline Retreat 2009 Clancy I – Speaking on steps 1, 2 & 3, Stateline Retreat 2006 Clancy I – “The Invisible Boat” 1983 LEARN – about the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles. Clancy’s Obituary, Los Angeles Times September 1, 2020 […]
From The Lund Report, July 21, 2020 When Gov. Kate Brown set up her Behavioral Health Advisory Council in October 2019, advocates and medical professionals hoped Oregon would finally spark meaningful change in a system plagued with failure. The state recruited several dozen people from across government, the behavioral health sector and advocacy groups. Physicians, […]
Author – Michael Hopcroft, Board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland On February 25th, a status conference was held in federal court about the settlement of a civil rights case on police use of force. In 2012, the US Department of Justice sued the City of Portland over multiple cases of excessive or […]
“Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them — will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard […]
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