Dependency on alcohol, opiates, marijuana, etc. substance abuse
Portland city council prepares to vote on new sobering beds KGW.com – May 2023 ‘Portland could use 50 beds’: City council proposes adding sobering beds to psychiatric hospital KGW.com – May 2023 Council members are set to vote on Wednesday to add nine new sobering beds at the Unity Center’s Psychiatric Hospital. This would cost […]
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 […]
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 […]
HB 2417 Report: Statewide Coordinated Crisis Services System (PDF) In 2021, through HB 2417, the Oregon legislature appropriated $15 million to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to establish 988 call centers and enhance mobile crisis services. The bill also directed OHA to identify an implementation plan for Crisis Receiving Centers as part of the state’s […]
Willamette Week – July 20, 2022 Some of Portland’s largest providers of substance abuse disorder treatment are furious at the way tens of millions of dollars in new funding are being allocated in Multnomah County. There’s a lot of cash at stake: $59 million of new funding from Measure 110 for Multnomah County providers alone. […]
Portland Tribune, July 20, 2022 Multnomah County is renovating an older building at 333 SW Park Ave. in downtown Portland to become a Behavioral Health Resource Center providing a mix of housing, services and respite to houseless people. Multnomah County officials are seeking state funding to expand behavioral health services for people who are frequently […]
Portland Business Journal, July 21, 2022 Multnomah County and seven other behavioral health providers expressed disappointment with how Measure 110 grants have been allocated and are asking the Oregon Health Authority to reconsider. The organizations detail their criticisms — missed opportunities, lack of fairness and innovation and “rushed and poorly developed” application materials — in […]
From Street Roots, July 6, 2022 – by Jason Renaud In the mid-1980s the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of view of the downtown business community which funded campaigns to elected persons to city hall and to the county) was public inebriates. They were considered unsightly, slightly dangerous, a […]
Landon Payne was killed in the custody of the Lane County jail staff – sworn deputies and contract health care workers – March 27, 2020 after an altercation and arrest by Eugene Police officers Andrew Roberts, Jacob Thomas and Jairo Solorio. The arrest included a force takedown and multiple Taserings. He was in a mental […]
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