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Four of Oregon’s largest hospital systems announced on Thursday they have appealed a federal court ruling that dismissed their lawsuit alleging the state violates the civil rights of Oregonians with mental illnesses by giving them inadequate care.
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An Oregon judge says an ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight can be released from jail pending trial.
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The governor’s new proposal would require all 58 counties to participate in the program to compel people with serious mental illnesses into treatment.
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A motel and RV park in Klamath County has been transformed into transitional housing for people in need. The initiative is known as Project Turnkey and it opened this week.
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A package working its way through the budget process will amount to the Legislature's largest-ever investment in necessary housing and services, advocates say.
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Widespread violence not seen since the start of 2020's massive protests for racial justice erupted in Portland on Friday night, following a fatal police shooting earlier in the day.
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The big mental hospitals of the past, with thousands of people locked up, are largely gone. Instead, people with persistent mental illness are free to…
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There's nothing simple about moving to a new country, whether legally or not. Especially for people fleeing bad situations in their countries of origins,…
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Sandy Allen had always been aware of the family's hermit uncle, Bob, who lived in the California desert. Out of the blue, a long handwritten manuscript…
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Charles Longjaw had already admitted to a killing in Oregon and a rape in Washington. Yet he was released from custody in 2015, and charged with…
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We stopped the "warehousing" of people with mental illness years ago. Or did we? The huge state hospitals with thousands of residents are generally gone,…
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We've certainly changed a few things about our approach to mental illness. The days of gigantic state hospitals "warehousing" mental patients are…
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It gets a little easier all the time to talk about suicide... on a general statistics-and-treatment level. Individual cases can still be extremely tricky,…
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A non-profit that helps homeless people get back on their feet recently bought a historic hotel, right in the middle of downtown Fort Bragg, on…