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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, Dec. 1, 2015 A group of more than a dozen hospitals, clinics and Coordinated Care Organizations announced Tuesday they will adopt a community-wide standard for the safe prescribing of opioids in order to combat an epidemic of abuse and addiction. The guidelines, developed over the course of the past year, are designed […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Barry Meier, The New York Times, August 1, 2013 As doctors try to ensure their patients do not abuse prescription drugs, they are relying more and more on sophisticated urine-screening tests to learn which drugs patients are taking and — just as important — which ones they’re not. The result has been a boom […]
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, […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 9, 2012 – by Peter Korn. Second of Two Parts Painkiller cuts send some patients to street drugs A year ago, Dr. Gary Oxman, Multnomah County’s public health officer, saw evidence that demanded what he calls a moral decision. He had watched as each year the number of Multnomah County […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 9, 2012 Salem Hospital takes steps to reduce excessive prescriptions as overdose deaths rise READ – Reducing prescription painkillers in the Salem Health emergency For Matt Harp, it all started with a baseball injury. He was a sophomore in college when he separated his shoulder. After surgery, his doctor […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 3, 2012 Words and pictures by Christopher Onstott – Part 1 of 2 On my first attempt at buying heroin in Portland I was told to come back in an hour. I’m a reasonably clean cut, 34-year-old white man with one wrist tattoo, no drug contacts; a photographer, not an […]
From the South County (Scappoose) Spotlight, April 25, 2012 State struggles with rising number of heroin overdoses, availability of illicit narcotics It was meant to strike a hefty blow to the region’s heroin supply. A two-month Columbia County Narcotics Team investigation led to a large-scale bust Feb. 24 at the Gresham house of suspected drug […]
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