At the Oregon Health Forum on Thursday (left to right): Kim Scott, CEO of Trillium Family Services; Paul Bryant, a clinical director at Kaiser Permanente; Hailey Hardcastle, freshman at the University of Oregon; Robin Henderson, chief executive for Behavioral Health for Providence St. Joseph Health; Brenda Martinek, chief of student support services for Portland Public Schools; and Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia of Oregon Health & Science University./Wyatt Stayner/The Lund Report
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