Tag Archives: Overdoses/Overdosing

Opinion | What Have Progressives Done to the West Coast?

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Portland murder suspect ID’d as man who fatally OD’d on fentanyl at Oregon State Hospital

A judge closed the murder case against a Portland man who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose at the Oregon State Hospital while awaiting trial on charges that he intentionally ran over a machinist near the St. Johns Bridge in 2021. Roy Bennett Jr., 32, had been under treatment at the state-run psychiatric hospital in […]
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Oregon State Hospital suspends in-person visits after patient dies of suspected fentanyl overdose

The psychiatric hospital is reviewing its in-person visitation policies as Oregon State Police investigate the overdose. A patient at Oregon State Hospital died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on Friday, and Oregon State Police are investigating the circumstances, police said. A spokesperson for the police agency confirmed the investigation to the Capital Chronicle late Friday […]
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California pays people with addiction to stay clean — with feds’ blessing

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using […]
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A record number of youth are dying from opioid use

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. The new trend has shocked many pediatricians, who say they feel unprepared to provide counseling on opioid […]
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Multnomah County retracts claim that overdoses led to lower cardiac arrest survival rates in 2023

County EMS Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Jui rebutted that criticism, and explained that his data showed overdoses were responsible for the falling survival rates, not slower ambulance response times. It’s an explanation that made intuitive sense. But it was wrong. Last month, OPB identified inconsistencies in the data that had been originally prepared by Jui […]
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Federal panel prescribes new mental health strategy to curb maternal deaths

Experts say lack of screening has driven higher rates of mental illness, suicide, and drug overdoses that are now the leading causes of death in the first year after a woman gives birth. Perinatal depression affects as many as 20% of women in the United States during pregnancy, the postpartum period, or both, according to […]
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