OREGON – Oregon’s Indigenous tribes are being compensated as part of a multi-million-dollar opioid settlement. Oregon’s nine Native American tribes are getting large chunks of money from the state. The money’s coming to them as a result of the opioid ...
OREGON – Oregon has multiple new laws coming into effect on New Year’s Day, including a law aimed at strengthening and improving measure 110. House Bill 2513 works to make addiction and treatment services more available to every Oregonian by speeding ...
MEDFORD, Ore.- A rise in opioid overdoses is being reported by Jackson County Public Health. According to Jackson County Public Health, they’re seeing an increase in fatal and nonfatal overdoses from illicit opioids, most commonly Fentanyl. The county says it’s ...
Author: Evan Watson (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — With fentanyl-related overdose deaths rising, Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to expand access to naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication often referred to by the brand name Narcan. House Bill 2395 still ...
SUTHERLIN, Ore. – Detectives found suspected carfentanil being trafficked into Douglas County during a traffic stop. 42-year-old Alma Adriana Fuentes of Live Oak, California was stopped on Interstate 5 near Sutherlin last Tuesday. During a search of her vehicle, an Oregon State ...
Author: Tim Gordon (KGW) OREGON, USA (KGW) — Oregon State Police made two big drug busts in Oregon in the past week. They came after routine traffic stops by state troopers. It put a dent in the fentanyl that otherwise ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Medford police are sounding the alarm after seeing a “staggering rise” in potential overdose deaths. Early this month, Providence Health and Services said doctors were seeing a sharp increase in the number of people coming into the ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Due to an increase in accidental overdoses related to illicit opioids, Jackson County Public Health is issuing an “overdose alert.” JCPH said the alert was made based on a sudden spike in local emergency apartment admissions, EMS ...
Author: Tim Gordon (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — People recently released from prison are ten times more at risk of opioid overdose than other Oregonians, according to researchers studying the incarceration and overdose issue. Drug overdose, especially with opioids, is ...
Author: Evan Watson (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon lawmakers are advancing bills that would expand public access to the opioid reversal medication naloxone throughout the state. The drug naloxone, commonly sold under brand names like Narcan, is one of ...