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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
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
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An artist's drawing of a new county Behavioral Health Resource Center planned for downtown Portland, at the old Bushong building site./Courtesy of Multnomah County
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SHUTTERSTOCK
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A bill to increase the penalties for assaulting hospital workers died on the desk of Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, who has long championed equity in mental health services.
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CASCADE LAKES HIGHWAY IN CENTRAL OREGON./SHUTTERSTOCK
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A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE MEASURE 110 OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COUNCIL ON FEB. 9, 2022./THE LUND REPORT
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An artist's depiction of a proposed psychiatric hospital proposed for a site in Wilsonville.
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
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
