THE MEASURE 110 OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COUNCIL CELEBRATES AFTER VOTING TO APPROVE THE FIRST NETWORK CONTRACT ON MAY 18, 2022./ZOOM SCREENSHOT/THE LUND REPORT
State auditors issued a “risk” letter flagging issues even as the drug decriminalization act’s oversight council finished approving grant applications.
Jun 2, 2022
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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The state hospital’s Junction City campus was cited for numerous violations in an inspection after a patient escaped during an outing.
May 25, 2022
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Crystal Johnson, 49, says the incentives she receives as part of her treatment programming are important to her recovery at Phoenix Wellness Center in Newport, Ore., on March 28, 2022.
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A temporary staffing agency aide was banned after he struck a patient who’d called him a racist epithet, records show.
Apr 18, 2022
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JULIA MINES STANDS OUTSIDE THE MIRACLES CLUB OF PORTLAND, WHERE SHE SERVES AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ON NORTHEAST MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD ON APRIL 7. SHE SAID IF FUNDS DON'T COME THROUGH SOON, SHE MAY HAVE TO LAY OFF STAFF./EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
Oregon Health Authority is needlessly slowing the distribution of $276 million in grants needed to address the state’s addiction crisis, say advocates and providers.
Apr 8, 2022
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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How meth is sabotaging Oregon's behavioral health system
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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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A lack of prevention, education and youth addiction programs opened the door to tragedy as dealers added the potent opioid to local drug markets