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Leaders of the City of Portland often claim the city does not provide services to people with mental illness, addiction, alcoholism, and that those services are entirely the province of other entities, such as the state, the county, the public health insurers such as CareOregon or Health Share, or private organizations such as hospitals and […]
By Tanner Aliff. For The Register-Guard, March 6, 2021 It took a while for me to get used to the screaming of handcuffed patients spastically yelling murderous threats at their police escorts as they wheeled them through the emergency room. It didn’t faze the veteran nurses — probably didn’t even crack their top 50 memorable […]
Below are a list of all persons shot and killed, shot and wounded, shot at and not killed, and killed by a conducted electrical weapon (CEW), also known as a Taser, in Oregon, in 2020, by state certified law enforcement. No officers received discipline for any of these incidents from their employers. No county district […]
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 […]
Oregon Addiction Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, December 2020 The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including the non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. Information from NSDUH is […]
From OPB.org, January 7, 2021 The project, still in its infancy, is a significantly more ambitious undertaking than a simple replacement of the sobering center. When it comes to drug and alcohol abuse, 2020 was a year marked by grim milestones for the city of Portland. The Portland Police reported 60 overdose deaths by October […]
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 […]
Columbian – May 26, 2020Columbian – May 26, 2020 When COVID-19 hit, the Vancouver Navigation Center had just been getting back on track. The city-owned day shelter for people without homes had been through a thorny couple of months. It had been left without a designated operator; the previous organization, the nonprofit Share, had dropped […]
From the Oregonian April 24, 2020 Three African American women who helped run Multnomah County’s first transitional housing program for black women returning to the community after prison are suing their former employer, Bridges to Change, alleging racial discrimination. O’Nesha Cochran, who was fired last spring as program manager of the new Diane Wade House, […]
From The Enterprise, April 9, 2020 Lifeways, Inc. laid off all staff at its residential substance abuse treatment facility last Friday, citing concerns over COVID-19. But interviews with staff indicate that company administrators were actively pressuring clinicians to take in more clients up until the day employees were laid off. It took Israel Otteson a […]
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