ERRIN JACOBS IS ADDICTED to methamphetamines. He wants to be in a treatment program. The trouble is, he is finishing his jail sentence at a halfway house and, like hundreds of other inmates transitioning out of prison and jails in the state, he is stuck in a bureaucratic blind spot. Currently, Jacobs resides at a […]
Evangeline Trotsky
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HIV on the Brain
Is AIDS Linked to Mental Illness?
NOT ONLY IS PORTLANDER Doug Sanders a slender 35-year-old battling AIDS, he is struggling to control a pre-existing mental illness. In this fight, Sanders is not alone. Although formal documentation is scarce, health providers are reporting an alarming number of AIDS patients who also suffer from mental illnesses. At first blush, such connections may seem […]