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Jackson County Joins Chorus of Concerns Over Gov. Kate Brown’s Mask Rules

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The rural southern Oregon county’s commissioners called new mask regulations “unfair” for local businesses and faith institutions. 

By: 
Ben Botkin

Physicians Focus on Curbing Opioid Abuse, Accidental Deaths

The Lund Report
Oregon's high rate of prescription abuse and reports of accidental overdoses nationwide have spurred conferences and discussion groups to change treatment protocols

October 8, 2012 -- In the 1990s, prescribing opioid painkillers for any patients besides those in the last stages of a terminal illness was frowned upon and could even result in censure, said Betsy Boyd-Flynn, deputy executive vice president of the Oregon Medical Association.

By: 
Christen McCurdy
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