Drug users need a safe place to inject Last week, Street Roots, along with the NAACP of Oregon and the Mental Health Association of Portland, hosted a social justice mayoral forum on police accountability, mental health and homelessness. Street Roots ask ...
17 Mar 2016 - Israel Bayer
‘Ban the box,’ criminal record expungement and other laws take effect Jan. 1, 2016 Several significant changes to Oregon’s criminal justice system were signed into law during the 2015 legislative session and become effective Jan. 1. A ban on police profil ...
31 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Shilo Murphy, drug user and harm reduction advocate, is poised to open facilities where people can inject illegal drugs in the presence of medical staff The first supervised injection site in the United States will open within six to 18 months in Seattle, ...
10 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Health providers announce plan for reducing prescription opiate overdoses This story has been updated. State and local government officials along with major health providers will announce new guidelines for prescribing opiates at a press conference Tuesda ...
1 Dec 2015 - 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
Invest in a solution that works, even if it's controversial This past year, there were 122 heroin-related deaths in Oregon, with 80 in Portland’s tri-county area. According to county officials, heroin use in our city has increased steadily over the p ...
27 Aug 2015 - SR editorial board
As public drug injection draws criticism in Portland, other U.S. cities fight for a controversial solution On the concrete floor of a public restroom, inside a parking garage in Portland’s Old Town, a heroin addict took his last breaths. He was overdosing ...
27 Aug 2015 - Emily Green
Harm reduction, anyone? For the past two years Street Roots has covered what some are calling an opiate/heroin epidemic in the region. SR is in no place to determine if the region is dealing with what we can call an epidemic — but it’s not pretty. Last we ...
26 May 2010 - Street Roots
Opiate overdoses spike to alarming levels By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Oregon’s Medical Examiner office released its annual report of drug overdoses deaths in early April, showing that 127 people died from heroin overdoses in 2009, 63 of which were i ...
26 May 2010 - Street Roots
Multnomah County Health Department warns of fatal heroin overdoses From the County Health Department. A handful of overdose deaths in the last few weeks, along with a steady rise in heroin-related deaths over the past year, have raised concerns among coun ...
18 Jul 2008 - Street Roots