Goals include decreasing prescriptions for drugs like OxyContin, reducing overlapping prescriptions, making naloxone more accessible It took Oregon practitioners only six months to write more than 1.4 million prescriptions for hydrocodone and oxycodone, a ...
1 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
The former ‘SNL’ Annoying Man turned Renaissance performer on comedy, mental health, and Israel Jon Lovitz was part of an iconic “Saturday Night Live Cast” in the late ’80s that included Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Dennis Miller and ...
1 Jun 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Richard Harris spent much of his working life with people addicted to various substances, and he knows about drugs and what they can do to people. So when Harris came out in support of Measure 91, which would legalize recreational marijuana use if approve ...
14 Oct 2014 - Jake Thomas
A lot has changed since Richard Lewis first hit the comedy scene in 1971, but Lewis’s onstage persona has stayed point-on: neurotic, obsessive and cathartically using fodder from his life on the analyst’s couch. Performance as therapy. Therapy as performa ...
15 Feb 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Harm reduction, anyone? For the past two years Street Roots has covered what some are calling an opiate/heroin epidemic in the region. SR is in no place to determine if the region is dealing with what we can call an epidemic — but it’s not pretty. Last we ...
26 May 2010 - Street Roots
Addiction Compassion: Punishment isn’t the cure Gabor Maté’s “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” is a look at addiction and drug policy based on the author’s experience as a doctor working with addicts in the impoverished down ...
3 Feb 2010 - Street Roots