WARMS SPRINGS, OR. - All nine Tribes of Oregon were present at the first ever Tribal Summit on Opioids and other Drugs. The Confederated Tribes of Warms Springs hosted this event at the beautiful Kah-Nah-Ta Resort in Warm Springs. This summit was focused … [Read more...]
Funding sought for opioid addiction treatment
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden holds a press conference at the Lines for Life offices to call for more funding for opioid abuse treatment. Read more on opb.org. … [Read more...]
Opioid Abuse Roundtable
“Stigma killed my son.” That’s what Kerry Strickland told the Opioid Abuse Roundtable that Senator Ron Wyden and Lines for Life CEO, Dwight Holton, convened along with Senator Jeff Merkley and Congressman Earl Blumenauer last month at Lines for … [Read more...]
Curing the pain (pain) cure
Two days ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines aimed at reducing addiction to opioids, and preventing overdoses (which numbered 28,000 in 2014, according to the CDC). Here’s a brief overview of why physicians took on … [Read more...]
The opioid addiction crisis
We were thrilled to welcome Sen. Wyden, Sen. Merkley and Congressman Blumenauer to Lines for Life to discuss strategies for ending the opioid-addiction crisis. We heard from families devastated by addiction, top doctors, treatment professionals and … [Read more...]
Oregon Leads the Nation in Rate of Non-medical Use of Pain Pills
This is one top ranking Oregon doesn't want. And the State of Washington is number three on the list.* Prescription pain pill abuse is a huge concern, and Oregon has the highest rate of nonmedical use of prescription pain drugs. This category of drugs … [Read more...]