Jordan Morelli, a supervisor at the David Romprey Oregon Warmline, pauses in between calls. Morelli has worked at the warmline for about nine years, taking calls from people who need help talking through mental health struggles.
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COURTESY COMMUNITY COUNSELING SOLUTIONS
State officials have called the service ‘essential’ and a money-saver, but want others in the fragmented behavioral health system to step up with funding
Oct 3, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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It’s the second time in two years that the federal government has found safety problems at the psychiatric facility following a patient’s escape
Sep 16, 2023
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Oregon Recovers co-founder and director, Mike Marshall (at right), speaks at an Oregon Recovers event last year. Tony Vezina, founder and director of 4D Recovery stands at left.
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COURTESY OREGON RECOVERS
Oregon Recovers wants state officials to declare a state emergency and mobilize a response that includes temporary field services, immediate access to care and changes to Measure 110
Sep 13, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
Seeking home turf after a federal court ruling, Marion County wants a local court to find that the state is not fulfilling its duties to patients and the public
Sep 12, 2023
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Stabbin’ Wagon holds regular outreach events at Medford’s Hawthorne Park, which has seen issues with drug use and camping among unsheltered people. Melissa Jones, the group’s leader, was arrested at the park during sweeps of homeless encampments in 2020.
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Court-ordered Oregon State Hospital discharge deadlines are having an effect, group says
Aug 29, 2023
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Dean Kienholz in his office at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, Ore. on July 19, 2023. Kienholz is a prisoner who became a certified alcohol and drug counselor while incarcerated.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
The state corrections department is expanding a program that certifies prisoners to be drug and alcohol counselors and mentors — and it couldn’t happen at a better time
Aug 25, 2023
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Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland.
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LEGACY HEALTH
How meth is sabotaging Oregon's behavioral health system
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SHUTTERSTOCK
Read our two-part series about how — despite a windfall of new funding — the state has no plan to address the 'new meth' that is overwhelming behavioral health providers and inflaming ongoing crises across the state.
State inaction left Oregon teens vulnerable to fentanyl’s fatal spread
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A student at Harmony Academy, a high school for teens in recovery, told The Lund Report he didn't realize he was smoking fentanyl until his parent had him tested. He thought the pills he was buying were oxycodone.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
A lack of prevention, education and youth addiction programs opened the door to tragedy as dealers added the potent opioid to local drug markets