Joe Allred used methamphetamine for 20 years before quitting more than six years ago. Now he is a lead counselor at BestCare in Klamath Falls, helping others beat their addictions.
Anne Muilenburg, the office manager of Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore., points to her handprint on the facility's parking lot wall on Dec. 9, 2021. The wall has handprints of recovering addicts and the dates they became "clean."
Debra Cross, director of operations for Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore., displays an emergency kit used to treat opioid overdose as she stands inside an ambulance converted into a mobile needle-exchange unit on Dec. 9, 2021.
Vanessa Caudel, a nurse, sits at her work station in the Great Circle treatment center on Feb. 24, 2022, in Salem, Ore., where she provides doses of methadone, which can relieve the "dope sick" symptoms a person in opioid withdrawal experiences.
Some of the handprints of people recovering from drug addiction are seen on Dec. 9, 2021, on a wall in the parking lot of Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore.
Joe Allred used methamphetamine for 20 years before quitting more than six years ago. Now he is a lead counselor at BestCare in Klamath Falls, helping others beat their addictions.
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Anne Muilenburg, the office manager of Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore., points to her handprint on the facility's parking lot wall on Dec. 9, 2021. The wall has handprints of recovering addicts and the dates they became "clean."
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Debra Cross, director of operations for Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore., displays an emergency kit used to treat opioid overdose as she stands inside an ambulance converted into a mobile needle-exchange unit on Dec. 9, 2021.
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Vanessa Caudel, a nurse, sits at her work station in the Great Circle treatment center on Feb. 24, 2022, in Salem, Ore., where she provides doses of methadone, which can relieve the "dope sick" symptoms a person in opioid withdrawal experiences.
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OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in 2013 in Montpelier, Vt.
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An arrangement of Oxycodone pills sit next to a bottle in 2018 in New York.
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An arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen are shown in New York.
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Some of the handprints of people recovering from drug addiction are seen on Dec. 9, 2021, on a wall in the parking lot of Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore.
Tayas Yawks sits amid a sprawling green field with an unmarked gravel parking lot. It’s a big brown building with sparse signage, easy to miss and to drive past without a second thought. But inside, members of the community come together, bonding with events such as luncheons, bingo games and drum circles.
Tayas Yawks is a drop-in and peer support center on Onyx Avenue in Klamath Falls. It’s welcome to all, offering a safe space to community members by providing events and spiritual practices based on Native American culture. It provides a support network for those who are struggling with drug addiction by providing harm-reduction resources which include lifesaving Naloxone kits, which are also known as Narcan kits. These are provided by Max’s Mission.
