Clockwise, from left to right: Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran, moderator and Portland Axios reporter Emily Harris, Providence Health Chief Executive of Behavioral Health Robin Henderson, Portland Street Response Interim Program Manager Lielah Leighton, Jonathan Mroz of Central City Concern, Multnomah Circuit Judge Nan Waller discussed promising approaches to improve behavioral health care in Portland.
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SCREENSHOT, OREGON HEALTH FORUM
An Oregon Health Forum panel agreed that action and urgency could significantly improve care for people experiencing mental health crisis and addiction in Oregon's largest city
The nationally acclaimed program is foundering amid a tripled workload, fear of violence and staff departures
Nov 14, 2023
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Oregon legislators discuss upcoming changes to Measure 110 at the Oregon State of Reform conference in Portland on Nov. 14, 2023. From left to right: Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland; Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Stayton; and Rep. Thuy Tran, D-Portland.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Public drug use and prosecution of drug dealers could be on the table, as well as reinstating criminal penalties and scrapping a controversial oversight council
Nov 14, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
One in 4 Oregon youth ages 12-17 have experienced a “major depressive episode” in the last 12 months — the second-highest rate in the country, according to the state
Oct 31, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
Oregon’s psychiatric hospital is quickly admitting ‘aid and assist’ patients while the state works to ease ‘strain’ around patients’ transitions to community programs
Oct 26, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
Ruling suggests a federal jurist is tiring of local officials challenging his order placing time limits on stays in the Oregon State Hospital
Oct 19, 2023
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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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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