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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 […]
Eds note – Series of articles from Southern Oregon reflect the increased criminalization of addiction caused by lack of resources provided to treatment services through the Oregon Health Authority. And how public policy about addiction can be overwhelmed and manipulated by jail builders and law enforcement. The plans described in these articles plan to spend […]
Medford Tribune, November 17, 2018 Tax hikes on beer, cider and wine are “off the table,” Gov. Kate Brown said Friday. The Oregon Health Authority wanted to increase taxes on beer, wine and cider by 10 percent, which officials said could raise nearly half a billion dollars over two years. The agency also proposed significant […]
Paige Matthews, Guest column in Salem Statesmen Journal – September 7, 2018 Paige Matthews, MA, NCC, is a co-occurring therapist at Bridgeway Recovery Services in Salem. A co-Occurring therapist provides individual and group counseling for people with co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders. Matthews specializes in LGBTQ+ substance use and mental health counseling. Reach her […]
Annual gathering held at Esther Short Park in Vancouver Columbian, September 3, 2018 11:57 a.m.: The last of the crowd packed onto the Interstate 5 Bridge on Monday, trading high-fives with volunteers as people stretched from the north bank to the south bank of the Columbia River. 11:59 a.m.: Hundreds of adults, children and pets […]
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