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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
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Stabbin’ Wagon holds regular outreach events at Medford’s Hawthorne Park, which has seen issues with drug use and camping among unsheltered people. Melissa Jones, the group’s leader, was arrested at the park during sweeps of homeless encampments in 2020.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
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Dean Kienholz in his office at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, Ore. on July 19, 2023. Kienholz is a prisoner who became a certified alcohol and drug counselor while incarcerated.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
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Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland.
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LEGACY HEALTH
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U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas.
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COURTESY OF ANDREA SALINAS
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A room inside the Recovery Works NW's new withdrawal management facility on Southeast Foster Road in Portland, Ore. Most rooms are limited to two beds.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
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SHUTTERSTOCK
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
How meth is sabotaging Oregon's behavioral health system
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SHUTTERSTOCK
Read our two-part series about how — despite a windfall of new funding — the state has no plan to address the 'new meth' that is overwhelming behavioral health providers and inflaming ongoing crises across the state.
State inaction left Oregon teens vulnerable to fentanyl’s fatal spread
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A student at Harmony Academy, a high school for teens in recovery, told The Lund Report he didn't realize he was smoking fentanyl until his parent had him tested. He thought the pills he was buying were oxycodone.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
A lack of prevention, education and youth addiction programs opened the door to tragedy as dealers added the potent opioid to local drug markets
