Below is a list of both private and publicly-funded facilities in the Portland, Oregon metro area (Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties) whose function is detention. We estimate over 2,500,000 Oregonians have been locked up in the institutions listed. Expand the list to include facilities simular to those below for the entire state, 1860-2025, and our […]
Updated July 29, 2024 During the 2023 Legislative Session, the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed House Bill 3610, which was then signed by the Governor. This bill initiated the creation of the Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services. The House Bill specifies that task force members shall: Study alcohol addiction and alcohol addiction prevention; Distribution of […]
End of the Oregon Trail – Suicides 1894-1974 (PDF) Rare monograph on the history of suicide in Oregon by OHSU researchers James Shore and Betty Arvidson, published in July 1977.
READ – Oregon inventory of services for cooccurring substance use and mental health disorders – for 2022, made available December 2023 In Oregon and nationally, a substantial proportion of clients in treatment for substance use disorders also have a mental health disorder. According to the 2022 National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), […]
Oregon State Hospital Will Stop Giving Condoms to Patients Willamette Week, May 3, 2024 “I don’t know why they’re handing out condoms,” Gov. Tina Kotek said in response to a question at a press conference Friday afternoon. “That particular footnote was a surprise, and we’re going to be talking to them.” Safety lapses contributed to […]
Oregon Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released February 2024 (PDF) Oregon Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released February 2024 (PPTX)
This is a supplement to the 90 minute talk given by Jason Renaud to various organizations – 2020-2024 Updated November 2023 1787 – Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin develop ideals of public prisons as an alternative to corporal punishment. Rush shares their ideas with Jeremy Bentham who in 1791 promoted his “Panopticon” plan for a […]
Below we’ve captured a journal of work of former Portland city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty from the city of Portland website – 1/2023. A summary of major accomplishments and notable moments during Commissioner Hardesty’s first year in office: 2019 – 2020. During this time Commissioner Hardesty was assigned to oversee Portland Fire & Rescue, Bureau […]
Portland Business Journal – Apr 7, 2022 Monta Knudson is one of hundreds of addiction services providers who scrambled to apply by the late December deadline for grants under the voter-approved Measure 110. He and the others had expected decisions to be announced in early February. Two months later, the providers still have no idea […]
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