Mental Health PDX

Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate

Menu

Tag: Karen Gunson

What happened to Robert Wickizer

June 9, 2016
| No Comments
| Police violence

Robert Wickizer, 70, was killed by police May 30, 2016, as they responded to a disturbance call in Tualatin. Officers said to be “involved” – one or more of whom shot Wickizer to death – were Tualatin officer Erich French, Beaverton officer Charles Wujcik, Beaverton officer Aaron Oberst, Washington County Sergeant Chris Schweigert, Hillsboro officer […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/police-shootings/" rel="category tag">Police violence</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/aaron-oberst/" rel="tag">Aaron Oberst</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/anthony-cristofaro/" rel="tag">Anthony Cristofaro</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/charles-wujcik/" rel="tag">Charles Wujcik</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/chris-schweigert/" rel="tag">Chris Schweigert</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/erich-french/" rel="tag">Erich French</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/nathaniel-will/" rel="tag">Nathaniel Will</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/officer-involved-shootings/" rel="tag">officer-involved shootings</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/robert-wickizer/" rel="tag">Robert Wickizer</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/tualatin-police-department/" rel="tag">Tualatin Police Department</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/washington-county-sheriffs-office/" rel="tag">Washington County Sheriff's Office</a> Leave a comment

Eugene man killed in Salem police shooting

April 27, 2015
| No Comments
| Police violence

Statesman Journal, April 25, 2015 What might have been the routine arrest of a Eugene man wanted for failing to appear in court on drug charges turned into a deadly shootout with Salem police officers. Before Friday’s tense, hours-long standoff ended with the gunman mortally wounded in a Wal-Mart parking lot, he had repeatedly fired […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/police-shootings/" rel="category tag">Police violence</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/chad-galusha/" rel="tag">Chad Galusha</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/david-baker/" rel="tag">David Baker</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/jacklynn-ford/" rel="tag">Jacklynn Ford</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/mark-hawkins/" rel="tag">Mark Hawkins</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/methamphetamine/" rel="tag">methamphetamine</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/michael-conley/" rel="tag">Michael Conley</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/robert-owings/" rel="tag">Robert Owings</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/salem-police/" rel="tag">Salem Police</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/tim-dezotell/" rel="tag">Tim Dezotell</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/trevor-morrison/" rel="tag">Trevor Morrison</a> Leave a comment

Oregon meth deaths at highest point since 2000

April 24, 2014
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

From Salem Statesman Journal, April 24, 2014 The Oregon State Medical Examiner has released 2013 statistics for drug-related deaths, finding that methamphetamine deaths are on the rise statewide. But other drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have declined. More than 200 people died in Oregon in 2013 due to drugs, nearly the same number of deaths […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/heroin/" rel="tag">heroin</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/methamphetamine/" rel="tag">methamphetamine</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-state-medical-examiner/" rel="tag">Oregon State Medical Examiner</a> Leave a comment

After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, local police release heroin overdose statistics

February 4, 2014
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

The Oregonian, Feb. 4, 2013 Police released the latest heroin overdose statistics Tuesday after the weekend death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman put the problem back in the national spotlight. Hoffman was found dead Sunday in a New York apartment with a syringe in his arm and dozens of packets of what appears to be […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/addiction/" rel="tag">addiction</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/heroin/" rel="tag">heroin</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/overdose-deaths/" rel="tag">overdose deaths</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/philip-seymour-hoffman/" rel="tag">Philip Seymour Hoffman</a> Leave a comment

State officials quietly settled with Moises Perez’s family last May, agreeing to pay $1.4M

September 13, 2013
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, Sept. 11, 2013 State officials have agreed to a $1.4 million settlement with the family of a patient at the Oregon State Hospital who died in his room but wasn’t discovered for hours. Moises Perez, 42, died in October 2009, of coronary artery disease and had recently complained of chest […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/dora-perez/" rel="tag">Dora Perez</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/moises-perez/" rel="tag">Moises Perez</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-state-hospital/" rel="tag">Oregon State Hospital</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/rebeka-gipson-king/" rel="tag">Rebeka Gipson-King</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/u-s-department-of-justice/" rel="tag">U.S. Department of Justice</a> Leave a comment

Prescription drug deaths fall in Oregon, but heroin deaths still rising

June 6, 2013
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, June 4, 2013 Every year about this time, Dr. Karen Gunson, the Oregon state medical examiner, and her colleagues tally up drug-related deaths in the state. And each year, Gunson sees trends in the numbers. For 2012, Gunson said, she saw that the ages of victims of heroin overdoses were […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/addiction/" rel="tag">addiction</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/heroin/" rel="tag">heroin</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/multnomah-county/" rel="tag">Multnomah County</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-health-authority/" rel="tag">Oregon Health Authority</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-prescription-drug-monitoring-program/" rel="tag">Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-state-medical-examiner/" rel="tag">Oregon State Medical Examiner</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/statistics/" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/tom-burns/" rel="tag">Tom Burns</a> Leave a comment

‘Alien Boy’ director on remembering James Chasse as ‘just a person’

February 26, 2013
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

By Brian Lindstrom, in the Portland Tribune, Feb. 21, 2013 As parents of a 7- and an 8-year-old, my wife Cheryl Strayed and I often discuss what we hope to impart to our children. At the top of that list is resilience, which I define not only as the ability to persevere despite obstacles but […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/alien-boy/" rel="tag">Alien Boy</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/anna-griffin/" rel="tag">Anna Griffin</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/bret-burton/" rel="tag">Bret Burton</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/brian-lindstrom/" rel="tag">Brian Lindstrom</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/charlie-hales/" rel="tag">Charlie Hales</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/cheryl-strayed/" rel="tag">Cheryl Strayed</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/christopher-humphreys/" rel="tag">Christopher Humphreys</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/james-chasse/" rel="tag">James Chasse</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/kyle-nice/" rel="tag">Kyle Nice</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/rosie-sizer/" rel="tag">Rosie Sizer</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/sam-adams/" rel="tag">Sam Adams</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/ted-wheeler/" rel="tag">Ted Wheeler</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/tom-potter/" rel="tag">Tom Potter</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/tom-steenson/" rel="tag">Tom Steenson</a> Leave a comment

Cheap, easy-to-get heroin leads to spike in Oregon overdose deaths

April 4, 2012
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

From the Oregonian, April 4, 2012 The warnings from law enforcement started early last year, said Dr. Karen Gunson, the state medical examiner: Police told her they were seeing a big increase in the amount of heroin entering the state. As the year wore on, the bodies kept piling up. By the end of 2011, […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a> Leave a comment

Methadone becoming a big killer

December 11, 2011
| 1 Comment
| Uncategorized

From the McMinnville News Register, June 4 2011 Last year, a single prescription drug killed 101 people in Oregon. No, it wasn’t the narcotic opiate oxycodone, dispensed primarily under the brand name OxyContin, or its cousin hydrocodone, under the brand name Vicodin. It was methadone, distributed under an array of little-known brand names. A pure […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/methadone/" rel="tag">methadone</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oxycontin/" rel="tag">OxyContin</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/yamhill-county/" rel="tag">Yamhill County</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/yamhill-county-interagency-narcotics-team/" rel="tag">Yamhill County Interagency Narcotics Team</a> 1 Comment

Oregon meth-related deaths jump 22 percent in 2010, most in a decade

May 12, 2011
| No Comments
| Uncategorized

From The Oregonian, May 12, 2011 Methamphetamine-related deaths in Oregon jumped 22 percent in 2010, claiming 106 lives — the most in a single year over the last decade, according to statistics compiled by the state medical examiner. READ – The Numbers Have Dropped But Meth Still Takes Its Toll, OPB.org – April 27, 2011 […]

Read More »

Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/karen-gunson/" rel="tag">Karen Gunson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/methamphetamine/" rel="tag">methamphetamine</a> Leave a comment

Posts navigation

1 2 … 4 Next

Categories

  • Addiction (80)
  • Advocacy (133)
  • Courts (55)
  • Health Care (132)
  • Housing (49)
  • Law Enforcement (90)
  • Legislature (12)
  • Mental Health (200)
  • Police violence (148)
  • Politics (20)
  • Prisons (33)
  • Uncategorized (2,584)
  • Youth (16)

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

© Mental Health PDX 2021. Powered by WordPress