From Asylum to Community – Mental Health Care in Oregon from the 1950s to 2000 By David Cutler MD, Barry Kast MSW, Zeb Larson PhD, and Jason Renaud Published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, October 2022 READ – formatted PDF of this article The question of how to provide mental health services for people with […]
Volunteers for the Mental Health Association of Portland have started to clean up the newly identified gravestones of patients of the Oregon Insane Hospital (1859-1880) at Lone Fir Cemetery. Those gravestones were identified through a July 2022 report, which at the moment still unavailable, “Lone Fir Cemetery – Research Results for Burials of Patients of […]
From the Lund Report – October 2020 Oregon’s treatment and recovery system for people struggling with addiction is about half the size it should be to meet demand, according to a comprehensive state-funded analysis released Friday. READ – OHSU – Oregon Gap Analysis and Inventory Report The report details substantial deficits in services across the […]
Three Oregon Hospital Systems Sue State Over Psychiatric Logjam Lund Report – September 28, 2022 Three Oregon hospital systems have joined forces to sue the Oregon Health Authority for allegedly forcing them to give long-term care to civilly-committed mental health patients that they are not designed to provide. Legacy Health, Providence Health & Services and […]
In a Summer 2022 report from Metro by Dudek, “Lone Fir Research Results for Burials of Patients of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane” (sic), researchers identified a set of specific gravestones at Lone Fir Cemetery. This report is not yet (September 2022) available to the public. These are the names of those buried under […]
Pierce Brooks was retired as Chief of Police in Eugene when Nathan Thomas and Bryan French were both killed by Portland Police in January 1992. Brooks was hired by the City of Portland to provide a report on the incident. Nathan Thomas was twelve. Bryan French crept into his home and held Nathan hostage. Police […]
From APNews.com, September 1, 2022 One summer night, Misty Castillo stepped out of her house in Salem, Oregon, called 911 and asked for the police, saying her son was mentally ill, was assaulting her and her husband and had a knife. “He’s drunk and he’s high and he’s mentally ill,” Castillo told the emergency dispatcher, […]
The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon – Same wine, different bottle By Steve Law Originally published in the Portland Tribune in August 2022 and reposted here with permission of the author. READ – Part 1: The Klan arrives in Portland READ – Part 2: The Klan seizes power statewide READ – Part 3: A push […]
From the Oregonian, August 30, 2022 A federal judge has decided that the Oregon State Hospital must impose strict limits on how long it treats patients who have been accused of crimes but in need of mental health treatment. READ – Oregon State Hospital may face admissions limits to ease overcrowding READ – As Oregon […]
Meth has changed, and it’s sabotaging Oregon’s mental health system Two Part story from the Lund Report, posted August 4 and August 5, 2022 In the state with the highest rate of meth use in the nation, the drug is driving severe mental illness among criminal defendants at the state psychiatric hospital, and other patients […]
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