Our View: City's homeless strategy off to strong start

Filed under: Portland Drug Treatment

Donna Yellen, advocacy director at Preble Street in Portland, holds the type of mattress on which homeless people sleep, while she address a City Council meeting Monday. The meeting was not the fight some people were expecting between the … Drug …
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Superintendent Changes At Three Oregon State Prisons?

Filed under: Portland Drug Treatment

CRCI is a minimum-custody facility in northeast Portland that houses nearly 600 inmates who are within four years of release. It provides a range of correctional services and programs that include alcohol and drug treatment, pre-release and …
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Routine HIV Screening Based on Evidence

Filed under: Portland Drug Treatment

The practice also can reduce the risk of AIDS-defining events and death in people whose immune systems remain relatively intact, according to Roger Chou, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and colleagues. A separate analysis, with …
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