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From The Oregonian, December 31, 2002 – not available online For more than a decade, Oregon has relied on county mental health agencies to investigate themselves when a mentally ill patient dies under their care. The result: County officials have faulted their own conduct in only two of 247 deaths during the past 3-1/2 years. […]
From The Oregonian, December 30, 2002 – not available elsewhere online In the past three decades Oregon has made it much harder to send mentally ill people to institutions against their will. Today, those laws prevent some of the most severely ill Oregonians from getting the treatment they need. An investigation by The Oregonian has […]
From The Oregonian, December 30, 2002 In the end, all Randy Wike could find to love about life was his 3-year-old son and Ice House beer — he drank a case a day to mute the symptoms of a mental illness that had debilitated him since he was a teenager. By age 30, it no […]
From the Oregonian, December 29, 2002. Not online. Jason Curtis Koontz, 23, utility worker, bowler, movie buff. Jason Curtis Koontz, who suffered from schizophrenia, was involuntarily committed to the Lane County Psychiatric Hospital on Sept. 10, 1999, in what records called “a severe psychotic state.” During a visit there, Koontz made his mother, Teresa Dupret, […]
From the Oregonian, December 29, 2002 – not online. Elias Laskey said he heard “divine revelations from God” and thought it was his responsibility to “cleanse the Willamette Valley.” “He was awesome,” said Laskey’s mother, Jeanette. “But he was ill.” In March 2000, Laskey climbed to the summit of 1,514-foot Mount Pisgah southeast of Eugene […]
From the Oregonian, December 29, 2002 – not online Corrine Reed believed she was on fire. She could feel her hair crackle and singe, her fingers char at the tips. Mental illness can bring the voices of heaven or hell, but Reed heard a relentless sizzling sound she swore was the burning of her own […]
From The Oregonian, December 29, 2002 – not available online There were times when Elise John understood that her schizophrenia could, without notice, take away her volition to care for herself. During a moment of clarity, she wrote these instructions so her family would know how she wanted to be treated while in the hospital: […]
by Peter Davidson, MD, Multnomah County MHASD Chief Clinical Officer/Medical Director, December 2002 Recession: First the bad news. No one can tell where the bottom is, there are too many variables in play, most of which are interdependent. But it is safe to say that we will emerge next spring even smaller than we are […]
Eugene Register-Guard, December 13, 2002 Springfield parent Lisa Brown understands too well the problems cited by a national foundation in its report issued Thursday criticizing Oregon’s care for children with mental illness. Brown, whose 12-year-old-son, Dale Nash, is mentally ill, helped with the report by taking part in a focus group to discuss the Oregon […]
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