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Discharged Portland patient, found handcuffed and shivering in ambulance bay, plans to sue Unity psychiatric hospital Oregonian – November 23, 2020 An attorney for a man ordered out of Portland’s psychiatric hospital a year ago and left handcuffed in the ambulance bay while police were called has filed a notice of intent to sue Unity […]
Sent by email January 19, 2021 Dear Governor Brown, First, thank you again for appearing virtually at our December 2020 Oregon Housing Conference to welcome the 450+ attendees. Your comments were thoughtful in the midst of the crisis of our lifetime. Members and supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland appreciate your concern for […]
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 the Corvallis Advocate, JANUARY 9, 2021 by Andy Thompson Editor’s Note: The names and other identifying information of the family in this story have been changed For family and other onlookers, a psychotic break can look like someone that’s suddenly devolved into delusional thoughts or paranoia, and even hallucinations. Angela Jaffrey puts it this […]
From the Oregonian, January 8, 2021 As a growing coronavirus outbreak at the Oregon State Hospital fills up the facility’s lone COVID-19 unit, administrators this week moved to stop admitting new patients so they can use the available space for more quarantine beds. U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman agreed to allow the psychiatric hospital […]
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 […]
From the Portland Tribune, December 30 2020 The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a Washington County ruling regarding the lack of speedy admissions to the hospital for those unfit to stand trial. The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld a 2019 ruling that found the state psychiatric hospital in contempt for failing to quickly admit […]
From the board of the Mental Health Association of Portland Recently the SAMHSA has begun requiring grantees to use the term behavioral health for a bucket of illnesses and disorders. It’s an inaccurate term which diminishes black-letter science-based public health decisions going back fifty years. The term appeared first in 1992 in the New York […]
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 […]
Petition by Oregon Advocacy Program to the Oregon State Hospital, 1988 Seeking public records – Incident and/or abuse report documenting suicide investigation of named patient at OSH – denied. Petition by Anthony M. Chapman to the Oregon State Hospital, 1989 Seeking diagnostic records and reports pertaining to psychiatric treatment and counseling – granted. Petition by […]
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