Clackamas County Jail expands medication-assisted treatment for opioid withdrawals

Washington County News: On Monday, November 17th, the CATT’s Beaverton Recovery Center (BRC) site officially began admitting individuals into residential treatment and withdrawal management (detox) treatment. This event marked the culmination of six years of …

CODA’s latest video provides a great look into our Outpatient programs, located in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. (CODA employees participated in the making of this video, playing the parts of patients.)

The role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid epidemic has been reported widely and analyzed in minute detail. We know the basic story: Research for lifesaving medicines morphs into deep, institutionalized greed. There’s more to …

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.