March 2005 – Oregon Mental Health Archive

Man killed by police was waving an umbrella

March 22, 2005

From The Oregonian, March 22, 2005 – not available online Ronald R. Riebling Jr. held an umbrella wrapped in a cloth when he came out of his ex-girlfriend’s duplex early Sunday. Portland Officer Terry Kruger thought the concealed object was a rifle and fired one shot, killing Riebling, police said Monday. Kruger, a law enforcement […]

Long-Forgotten Reminders Of the Mentally Ill in Oregon

March 14, 2005

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From the New York Times, March 14, 2005. Next to the old mortuary, where the dead were once washed and prepared for burial or cremation, is a locked room without a name. Inside the room, in a dim and dusty corner of one of many abandoned buildings on the decaying campus of the Oregon State […]

Unnecessary Epidemic: A Five-Part Series

March 1, 2005

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From The Oregonian, October 4, 2004 This series of articles, written largely by Steve Suo, illuminated and encouraged Oregon’s legal strategy toward addiction which uses institutional punishment approach versus a medical approach which might offer an individual’s recovery as a primary goal. As of Spring of 2011, Oregon’s strategy has had no affect on the […]