From The Oregonian, October 6, 2013 [Eds. MHAP Board members Jenny Westberg and Jason Renaud will join Anna Griffin of The Oregonian for an online conversation with readers, per below.] Twenty-three-year-old Melanie Carlson hears voices. She sees strange things — messages hidden in fast-food cups, crowds of people connected by green lines of energy — […]
Editorial from The Oregonian, October 2, 2011 A study reveals that even those with insurance can’t get emergency psychiatric care READ – well, we’d like to show you the Harvard study referred to in this editorial, but the author doesn’t cite and it’s not online. READ – Doctors Sue Over ER Limits in Washington State, […]
Opinion Editorial from the Oregonian, September 17, 2011 Right now in Oregon, doctors, nurses, state and county employees and 133 volunteers, deployed into four working groups, are hatching a health care revolution. They know a lot. And this may fall into the category of “Got that covered,” but it’s worth repeating: Prioritize drug treatment. The […]
From The Oregonian, November 18, 2010 The hope is that the new Oregon State Hospital will conjure images far different than what we all remember from the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The reality is that Oregon has a new, state-of-the-art mental hospital but some of the same old problems. In fact, even […]
By Bob Joondeph, Executive Director of Disability Rights Oregon In this essay, Bob is commenting on former Oregonian editor Jack Hart’s recent article, Insane choices: We, not the police, are responsible for the consequences of how we deal with homeless mentally ill, on the police shooting death of Jack Collins in the Hoyt Arboretum. We […]
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 […]
From The Oregonian, October 7, 2004 Child of the epidemic is part 5 of 5 UNNECESSARY EPIDEMIC: A Five-Part Series by The Oregonian – 2004 / 2005 SEE – All five stories here. This series of articles, written largely by Steve Suo, illuminated and encouraged Oregon’s legal strategy toward addiction which uses institutional punishment approach […]
From The Oregonian, October 6, 2004 Shelved Solutions is part 4 of 5 UNNECESSARY EPIDEMIC: A Five-Part Series by The Oregonian – 2004 / 2005 SEE – All five stories here. 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 […]
From The Oregonian, October 5, 2004 Letter of the law becomes law enforcement by letter is part of UNNECESSARY EPIDEMIC: A Five-Part Series by The Oregonian – 2004 / 2005 SEE – All five major stories here. A DEA program to document dealers of meth chemicals has holes large enough to drive truckloads through The […]
From The Oregonian, October 4, 2004 Lobbyists and loopholes is part 1 of 5 UNNECESSARY EPIDEMIC: A Five-Part Series by The Oregonian – 2004 / 2005 SEE – All five stories here. This series of articles, written largely by Steve Suo, illuminated and encouraged Oregon’s legal strategy toward addiction which uses institutional punishment approach versus […]
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