Medicare and Medicaid recipients face barriers to accessing mental health and addiction services
Aug 24, 2023
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A room inside the Recovery Works NW's new withdrawal management facility on Southeast Foster Road in Portland, Ore. Most rooms are limited to two beds.
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Recovery Works Northwest has opened a medical withdrawal management facility in Portland that has 16 beds and will serve Multnomah and Clackamas counties
Angela Carter said Oregon Health Authority ignored repeated requests for staffing and resources and fostered secrecy and manipulation as the drug decriminalization law rolled out
Aug 11, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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In a new filing, Disability Rights Oregon says some judges and other officials are thwarting a federal court order intended to open up beds at the state psychiatric facility
Juliana Wallace has avoided the spotlight while serving in a range of jobs that supporters say make her a good pick to help improve the state’s behavioral health system.
Aug 3, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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A landmark federal court order limiting how long certain patients can stay at the psychiatric facility has pressured local justice and health systems
Aug 2, 2023
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Screen shot from a map of 911 call data showing reports of overdose in Portland over the 18-month period from Jan. 1, 2022 to June 25, 2023. See below for the interactive map.
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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