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KVAL, July 13, 2016 The recent death of the musician Prince highlights a national problem with opioid overdoses, which on average kill 78 Americans per day. “We know that we have people dying from this,” Dr. Patrick Luedtke with Lane County Public Health said. “We know that we have car accidents being caused by excess […]
Portland Business Journal, July 9, 2015 A report out this week detailing how heroin use has surged in the U.S. came as no surprise to Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. “We’ve had significant heroin problem in Oregon for decades,” Seppala said. “Everything suggests it’s continued to worsen.” The […]
Portland Business Journal, April 27, 2015 A few years ago, a Los Angeles Times reporter named Sam Quinones found himself in Huntington, West Virginia, trying to figure out how black tar heroin from Mexico got there. Turns out it originated in a tiny town in the state of Nayarit on the central-west coast of Mexico […]
Portland Business Journal, March 27, 2015 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Thursday announced a three-pronged initiative — and $133 million in new funding — to combat rampant opioid and heroin abuse. Dr. Andy Mendenhall, medical director of Hazelden at Beaverton, thinks the strategy could work. “I’m really excited, and as an […]
Willamette Week, April 16, 2014 Two months ago, a heroin user overdosed on the Southwest Salmon Street overpass across Interstate 405, about a block from the headquarters of Outside In. Someone alerted the staff at the nonprofit social-services agency, and someone else called 911. But Haven Wheelock, who runs Outside In’s needle-exchange program, ran out […]
From Salem Statesman Journal, April 24, 2014 The Oregon State Medical Examiner has released 2013 statistics for drug-related deaths, finding that methamphetamine deaths are on the rise statewide. But other drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have declined. More than 200 people died in Oregon in 2013 due to drugs, nearly the same number of deaths […]
From the Charlotte Observer, April 5, 2012 Eds. Note – Below is an excerpt from a longer national story about heroin. You can read the rest here. Before 9 o’clock every weekday morning, the secret to one of the most successful drug rehabilitation clinics in Portland, Ore., waits behind a locked door. Meet David Fitzgerald, […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 4, 2013 Police released the latest heroin overdose statistics Tuesday after the weekend death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman put the problem back in the national spotlight. Hoffman was found dead Sunday in a New York apartment with a syringe in his arm and dozens of packets of what appears to be […]
Part 1: Heroin a top killer in Ore., rising among teens By Abbey Gibb, KGW News, Nov. 11, 2013 Heroin has become the deadliest drug in Oregon, killing one person every three days. Police say they have seen the drug in high schools, with addicts as young as 13 years old. Meanwhile, users say parents […]
From the Portland Business Journal, October 9, 2013 There are a lot of unsung heroes working in the trenches in Portland to help those who have fallen into opiate dependence. Alison Noice, director of addiction medicine treatment at CODA, is one of them. CODA is the oldest opioid addiction treatment program in Oregon, established in […]
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