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Bridgeway ends plan for recovery home as local treatment providers brace for state funding cuts
Two of Salem’s largest addiction treatment providers will lose at least $1 million in annual state funding for recovery services due to funding changes made by the Oregon Health Authority last week. Bridgeway Community Health will be unable to fund a new men’s stabilization center, which it planned to open early this year.
New Marion County program aims to keep drug users out of jail as possession is criminalized again
Last Friday, Marion County officials announced a new court program designed to divert drug users away from jail as drug possession becomes criminalized starting on Sept. 1.
Health officials confirm fourth measles case in Marion County
An unvaccinated Marion County child was diagnosed with measles Tuesday, health officials said. There are no known public exposures to the virus or links to three other Marion County children recently confirmed to have measles.