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Powerful discussion on opioid overdoses

Respected Seattle broadcast journalists Enrique Cerna and Penny LeGate and the energy behind a terrific panel discussion about opioid addiction that was filmed at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry. Legate lost a young adult …
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It takes all kinds of fighters to beat this epidemic

UPDATE: Good news about FDA labeling changes for opioids. And, check out this terrific Seattle Times story of a mother who uses her celebrity to draw attention to the opioid epidemic. Penny LeGate is well …
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Study finds tapering, clinic policies can reduce opioid use

(UPDATE: Coverage on Sen. Jeff Merkley’s website too.)   Medical Press and Partnership For Drug-Free Kids, and other websites are reporting on a study on opioid addiction in which CODA Medical Director Melissa Weimer and …
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Project Nurture in Portland Business Journal!

CODA’s Deputy Director Alison Noice recently talked to healthcare writer Elizabeth Hayes at Portland Business Journal about the agency’s role in Project Nurture. This program, a partnership with OHSU and Health Share of Oregon serves pregnant …
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CODA and the 2014-15 Book of Lists!

Portland Business Journal’s popular Book of Lists is out! This large-format annual guide to the area’s businesses, not-for-profits, professional services and more is an excellent and cogent resource, as well as a useful way to …
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CODA Medical Director Weimer in TIME

Melissa Weimer,  CODA’s Medical Director, appears in a well-written article in Time magazine, headlined “Stopping America’s Hidden Overdose Crisis.” As Time writer Jon Marcus observes, “Weimer is an advocate of sharing prescription information across state …
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Portland Business Journal notes CODA Research study

“In Oregon, marijuana is second only to alcohol when it comes to admissions for substance abuse treatment, yet it’s hard to find any targeted programs here or elsewhere,” reports Portland Business Journal writer Elizabeth Hayes. …
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Portland Business Journal: Mendenhall on addiction; Dwight Holton joins Lines for Life

A guest column in the Portland Business Journal provides a thoughtful overview of addiction and treatment today.  The author, Dr. Andy Mendenhall, medical director of the Hazelden clinic in Beaverton, wrote this  in the context of the …
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Oregon healthcare in the news

The Oregonian reports that some 50,000 people were able to get coverage by year’s end through the state’s healthcare exchange, Cover Oregon. Those people are in addition to “more than 100,000 people who were enrolled in the Oregon Health …
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Opioid addiction treatment in the news

Dec 3 – The science (and stigma) of Suboxone, or buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction is making headlines across the news blogosphere, following a series in The New York Times. The local view …
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Elizabeth Hayes serves readers well in ‘The Price of Addiction’

A multi-part series, “The Price of Addiction,” in the Portland Business Journal is a carefully reported and clearly written set of articles that tackle a tough issue — one that needs more attention in our region …