Author: Brittany Falkers, KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s been three years since the pandemic hit, stopping everyone in their tracks. It flipped daily life upside down, claimed millions of lives, revealed systemic issues and changed the way people think ...
Author: Tim Gordon SALEM, Oregon — Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would increase the penalties for people in possession of more than a gram of fentanyl or for those dealing the drug. There has been plenty of debate about ...
Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — For the first time in the United States, Oregon students will graduate this month from a program that will eventually allow them to legally dole out doses of “magic mushrooms.” The graduates ...
Author: Tim Gordon (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Clinical trials are an important way for cancer patients to get help from promising, new therapies, but some people face obstacles taking part in them. A new program at Oregon Health and ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Several months ago, KGW reported on an addiction treatment center in Northeast Portland that focuses on helping young adults. There, reporter Blair Best met a 19-year-old who had just entered the program ...
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: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum joined health care professionals and abortion advocates on Sunday to speak out against a federal lawsuit, that aims to end the distribution ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – We’re getting ready to turn our clocks forward this weekend. You’ll need to set your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday or before you go to bed Saturday for daylight saving time. Oregon, like several other states, is ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Gov. Tina Kotek has announced a new interim director at the Oregon Health Authority following last week’s news that the previous interim director, James Schroeder, will resign after only about two months in ...
Author: Mike Benner (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon is far from immune to this country’s fentanyl epidemic. The state is first in the nation for addiction rates and last for access to drug treatment, and the influx of cheap, ...