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CODA welcomes career seekers

CODA’s Behavioral Health Careers Open House was a big success! More than 50 people interested in the important work we do with women and men living with alcohol, drug and mental health challenges came to …
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Behavioral Health Careers Open House!

CODA is hosting an Open House at our Portland location on Thursday, May 8, 2014. If you are interested in learning more about careers at our ten sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, or …
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CODA Gresham site improved and expanded

An exciting renovation has taken place at CODA’s Gresham site. New and returning patients, Outpatient or Residential, all are finding the updated campus-style design more welcoming and efficient. The Gresham Recovery Center Men’s Residential Program has increased …
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CODA celebrating 45 years of helping people reach and sustain recovery

We are marking our 45th year as a treatment agency! Speaking to nearly 80 guests at CODA’s Birthday Lunch on March 13, Executive Director Tim Hartnett reminded his listeners that “CODA has always rejected the …
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Alison Noice is CODA’s new Deputy Director

Alison Noice, known throughout the behavioral health community for her work as Director of CODA’s Addiction Medicine Program, has been named Deputy Director of the agency.  Alison came to Multnomah County in 1999 to work in a …
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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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Animals, healing, and great photos

Sometimes healthcare news is heartwarming; that’s the case with the piece by reporter Elizabeth Hayes and photographer Cathy Cheney of Portland Business Journal who produced a gallery of photos showing kids in local hospitals as …
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From CODA’s Executive Director

The death of a prominent person, especially an artist as talented as Philip Seymour Hoffman, shocks us all. Hoffman’s powerful performances have made him a larger-than-life figure, and it seems terribly wrong that he could …
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NYTimes: How to stop heroin deaths

A well-written column by a New York City emergency room doctor discusses the role of Naloxone, an opioid antidote, in saving lives lost to overdose.
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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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Writer Scott Stossel slays stigma

Scott Stossel’s book, “My Age of Anxiety,” is attracting a great deal of attention as the author makes the rounds of talk shows and interviews. Reviewers are citing it for its fairness, and its good …
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

CODA will be closed Monday, January 20 to observe the day set aside to honor the life and work of the Reverend Martin Luther King. Jr. Readers of the CODA News blog interested in learning …