From the Oregonian, July 23, 2008 Care – The county allows Cascadia keep the mental health clinic open after protests Maggielean President said she never lost faith. She prayed that the Garlington Center, a Northeast Portland clinic where she and hundreds of others received mental health services, would keep its doors open despite the struggles […]
From The Oregonian, June 2, 2005 – not available elsewhere online After decades as a criminal dope fiend, David Fitzgerald is steering ex cons through a drug rehab. program that really works. It’s half past eight on Monday morning, the weekend a memory at best. Two dozen men and women are wedged in the lobby […]
Eds. Note – In 2014 the Mentor Program still struggles on with limited funding from Multnomah County. It’s success is taken for granted, but Multnomah County leadership has failed to fund it sufficiently to affect over a handful of addicts over the past 15 years. By Chris Lydgate, from Willamette Week December 5 2000 Alan […]
From The Oregonian, November 14, 1996 You can count Barb Sander among the tame and typical who have passed through the Hooper Detox Center. Tame because Sander who was treated for alcohol and drugs when she frequented Hooper in the early through mid-1980s, is a contrast to the sometimes more volatile heroin addicts now treated […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, April 18, 1996. Not available elsewhere online. “Police shootings in August 1994 of two mentally disturbed women in less than a week shocked and appalled Portland and Gresham.” “The cream of the crop.” The phrase is common, but both the source and the subject are surprising. […]
From The Oregonian, March 14, 1996 – not available elsewhere online READ – about John Blank, L.Ac., M.Ac.O.M. Drug users become human pincushions at the Washington County Community Corrections Center, the only correctional institution in Oregon that uses acupuncture to fight drug and alcohol abuse. John Blank, a state licensed acupuncturist with a degree in […]
From the Oregonian, March 11, 1995 Tipper Gore‘s visit to Portland’s shelter system Friday left her with the impression many have when they visit here: It’s a national model for dealing with homelessness. Her concern, she said, is keeping it that way. “I was very impressed with what I saw today and more with what […]
From The Oregonian – March 14, 1988 Dennis clenched his hands into tight fists. His faced reddened as he spoke. “I can’t remember! I can’t remember anything!” With the help of two people, he was standing now. He had been lying on the floor inside the Burnside Projects shelter in Old Town when the call […]
From The Oregonian – February 15, 1988 Acupuncture treatments appear to have slashed the recidivism rates of alcoholics and drug addicts passing through Multnomah County detoxification programs in the last six months. Normally, 20 percent to 25 percent of those participating in the county’s alcohol and drug detox programs fail to complete them and return […]
From the Oregonian, January 7, 1988 Adam Ruark sat in his room Wednesday at the Athens Hotel in Northwest Portland thinking about how he got a chance to make a new start. When the 24-year-old Los Angeles native came to Portland six months ago, he was living on the streets. At night, Ruark sought shelter […]
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