From The Oregonian, February 20, 2015 A woman suffering from a severe mental illness sat locked in isolation in a Yamhill County jail for 10 days awaiting a state psychiatric bed. She was suicidal, hearing voices and unable to get proper medication to treat her psychosis. She was never charged with a crime. Three judges […]
By Paul Daquilante, the Yamhill Valley News-Register, Dec. 17 2011 John Branch, who charged two Newberg-Dundee police officers with a large hunting knife, leading one of them to shoot him, has been committed to the Oregon State Hospital. The 58-year-old Dundee resident was found “guilty except insane” at a stipulated-facts trial conducted by Yamhill County […]
From the McMinnville News Register, June 4 2011 Last year, a single prescription drug killed 101 people in Oregon. No, it wasn’t the narcotic opiate oxycodone, dispensed primarily under the brand name OxyContin, or its cousin hydrocodone, under the brand name Vicodin. It was methadone, distributed under an array of little-known brand names. A pure […]
From the Newberg Graphic, November 24, 2010 Mental health — GFU clinic with Providence funding helps meet need in Yamhill County Dr. Joel Gregor stands before the George Fox Behavioral Health Clinic, located adjacent to the university’s Villa Academic Center. Recognizing a need for low-cost mental health services in the county, Providence Health & Services-Oregon […]
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