But the cause of someone's psychotic symptoms is often a mystery to police – and even to doctors at first Walking through downtown Portland, it’s not unusual to cross paths with some poor soul yelling obscenities into the air while erratically dartin ...
14 Dec 2018 - Emily Green
Criminalization is not, and never has been, the answer to a health crisis This week, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an opinion piece in the New York Times in response to the momentum building around safe injection sites for intravenous ...
31 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day Friday, Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. It is a day when we come together to honor the people we have lost because of drug use and to stand committed to reducing the stigma that ...
24 Aug 2018 - Haven Wheelock
COMMENTARY | Four generations of women in my family have sacrificed, struggled, made mistakes and endured. I owe my existence and determination to them. Great-Grandma Irma owned a trailer and the tiny plot it stood on. Over the counter between the kitchen ...
20 Jul 2018 - Dustin Dandliker
COMMENTARY | Dustin Dandliker reflects on people who touched his life in meaningful ways This series is a first-hand account of the struggles and successes of overcoming trauma, mental illness, addiction, homelessness and more. I carry with me my mom. She ...
22 Jun 2018 - Dustin Dandliker
The grassroots movement changed how people look at addiction and saved countless lives in the process No major city in North America pushes the envelope on harm reduction further than Vancouver, B.C. It started 20 years ago, when a group of drug users for ...
25 May 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
COMMENTARY | One man's course to a better life after trauma, depression, addiction, homelessness A Crooked Path Forward This series is a first-hand account of the struggles and successes of overcoming trauma, mental illness, addiction, homelessness ...
27 Apr 2018 - Dustin Dandliker
Oregon Recovers, a coalition led by people in recovery, demands Oregonians have immediate access to drug and alcohol treatment, as well as continuing support Jay Z’s “Marcy Me” reverberated throughout the room, drowning out sounds of billiard balls knocki ...
23 Feb 2018 - Emily Green
Rep. Tawna Sanchez is sponsoring legislation to make an inert government body do its job In 2009, Oregon legislators created the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission and gave it one job: create a plan for improving the state’s publicly funded substance abus ...
9 Feb 2018 - Emily Green
The Oregon county is piloting a program to give participants in jail and on probation drugs to stay clean and avoid painful withdrawal symptoms Justin Davenport, Jake Moses and Brandin Riehle are best friends, the closest friends each of them has had in t ...
5 Jan 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe