As support groups across Oregon cancel and move online due to COVID-19 measures, an increase in relapses could compound demands on health care providers Amid coronavirus-prompted social distancing measures, in-person meetings that support the sobriety of ...
19 Mar 2020 - Emily Green
For some, sobriety is a tradeoff when recovery culture perpetuates body-image issues Loitering on the sidewalk outside the building’s entrance, a mismatched group of individuals chat away while smoking cigarettes. Once inside, they’ll be offered coffee an ...
6 Sep 2019 - Emily Green
Harmony Academy in Lake Oswego will help students stay clean and sober together On Sept. 3, Harmony Academy will open its doors to any high school student in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse in Portland’s tri-county area. Enrollment at Oregon’s first ...
30 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
A bill in the House would help people make it to the five-year mark, where chance of relapse drops drastically Portland was going to be a fresh start for Lor Hiou, 27, and her boyfriend. Hiou had just completed a 30-day inpatient drug treatment program in ...
17 May 2019 - Emily Green
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
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
Goals include decreasing prescriptions for drugs like OxyContin, reducing overlapping prescriptions, making naloxone more accessible It took Oregon practitioners only six months to write more than 1.4 million prescriptions for hydrocodone and oxycodone, a ...
1 Oct 2015 - Emily Green