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Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBDespite nationwide overdose deaths dropping in 2023 鈥� the first decrease in over five years 鈥� deaths in Oregon rose. -
Justin Higginbottom/JPRThe founder and executive director of harm reduction non-profit Stabbin' Wagon is leaving. But she said the controversial Southern Oregon group will continue to provide assistance to drug users.
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OnTrack provides substance abuse treatment in the Rogue Valley, and has been working to right its ship after several bumpy years. A new bump emerged in鈥� -
They already teamed up on a book that took a middle road on the vaccine debate. Now Dr. Paul Thomas and Ashland journalist Jennifer Margulis explore鈥� -
The Yurok tribe is looking for funding for "wellness villages," which are planned living sites along the river where the tribe can help reintegrate people鈥� -
The experiments with hallucinogenic drugs years ago were meant to find out if they had therapeutic uses... could LSD and its relatives help people? The鈥� -
Drug addiction is one of the stories of our time. Still. The drugs change, but the addictions keep on coming, despite The War on Drugs and many other鈥� -
The reaction was sharp and negative when Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its drugs... from $13.50 per pill to $750.00. The company CEO鈥�
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The HIV Alliance in Eugene puts a lot of time and effort into curbing the chances of people getting HIV infections. The alliance already offers needle鈥� -
A bill signed by Oregon's governor has reclassified personal-use possession of cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs as a misdemeanor from a鈥� -
Headlines in other parts of the country keep saying Oregon has "decriminalized" some drug offenses. That is not quite the case, but it is true that the鈥� -
Stories about drug addiction tend to have some common themes. One of them is that people often think that they will NOT get addicted. And they're usually鈥�
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The opioid painkiller epidemic took a strange twist when doctors clamped down on the prescription drugs. Users began turning to heroin as a replacement鈥�
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Who would have thought that the drug story of our time is a story of legal drugs, prescribed by doctors? Opioids, prescription painkillers, became highly鈥�
