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CODA Research Continues to Advance the Field

16th September 2019

We would like to congratulate CODA’s Associate Director of Research and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at OHSU, Dr. Randy Torralva, and Dr. Aaron Janowsky, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

CODA Admissions Dept is standing by!

1st August 2019

When we launched our Call Center a couple of years ago, we made it much easier for patients and their families to reach us and get timely treatment. Now CODA

Do your patients need CODA services?

14th June 2019

Good news: It just got easier for providers in our community to connect patients to medication-assisted treatment and other services at CODA! Check out the new page and easy-to-use pdf.

Another opioid case settles

27th May 2019

From the Washington Post: “The state of Oklahoma settled Sunday with a second drug company over its role in the deadly opioid epidemic, reaching an $85 million agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals

CODA gets student-powered grant!

16th May 2019

CODA is honored to be chosen by AVID students at Liberty High School (Hillsboro, Oregon) for a grant to educate their peers about substance abuse. Rose Gerber, CODA Development and Events Manager,

CODA closer to bringing much-needed treatment to Seaside

1st May 2019

Earlier this month, representatives from the Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization, Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc., and CODA shared with the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners how a clinic providing

Hartnett to retire, Alison Noice named Acting Executive Director

22nd April 2019

CODA’s Executive Director Tim Hartnett announced his retirement today (April 22, 2019), along with the news that Deputy Director Alison Noice will become Acting Executive Director on May 1. Tim

Powerful radio

7th March 2019

Have you heard about the play, “American Junkie?” Now in performance at Seattle’s Repertory Theatre, it is a remarkable creation of playwright Tom Hansen. This is a frank, intelligent radio

Harm reduction, and a tale of two cities

25th February 2019

This well-written and carefully reported article in The Nation looks at the dramatically different responses to opioid epidemic in Philadelphia and Vancouver, BC. The quotes from the determined activists who

Pro athletes and the opioid epidemic

22nd February 2019

Professional athletes, particularly football players, are often caught up in the opioid epidemic, typically because of the heavy amounts of painkillers they are given in order to play at the

CODA services needed on Oregon coast

14th February 2019

The Oregon coast is in dire need of treatment services for substance use disorders, and CODA is in discussion with local officials and citizens about creating a program in Seaside.

“American Overdose” takes tough look at crisis

3rd January 2019

New books on the opioid epidemic are popping up on shelves with great regularity now. The latest, and one of the most promising, is “American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in